Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Mare Molly Barrow, born November seventeenth, 302 of the New Era, to Daniel and Ruth Barrow,” Tiberias recites from memory, laying my life bare.”

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402. “When the maids pinch and pull me into a gown, I feel like a corpse being dressed for her funeral.”

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403. “If Valtik is going to rhyme, you can’t start talking in riddles, Sorasa,” she said, exasperated. “I refuse to save the realm under these conditions.”

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404. “In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?”

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405. “This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white.”

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406. “I’m not a prince, my life has not been charming. I know to expect the worst out of everything and everyone.”

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407. “He is not only a distraction I can’t afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.”

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408. “I guess I did it wrong, as I do everything wrong. This time, I feel the shadow before I see it. And it feels angry.”

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409. “I have been running for so long. Since before all this even started. Even back in the Stilts, I was a runner. Avoiding my family, my fate, anything I didn’t want to feel. And I am still racing now. From those who would kill me – and those who would love.”

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410. “Impossible,′ the shadow says to me.”

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411. “We destroy. It’s the constant of our kind.”

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412. “We had a son too, Tibe. No matter how you felt about me, you were supposed to love him.”

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413. “They are dead. We are dead. It is over.”

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414. “Her silence was her best quality. Perhaps her only good one.”

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415. “Hammer and nail, the Companions are now seven, wind and gail, bound for hell or bound for heaven.”

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416. “But Maven shut me out of a place that was rightfully mine. He didn’t know to look for Elane. My lovely, invisible shadow. Her reports came later, under the cover of the night. They were very thorough. I feel them still, whispered against my skin with only the moon to listen. Elane Haven is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen in any capacity, but she looks best in moonlight.”

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417. “The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. “I’ll see what I can come up with,” he finally forces out.”

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418. “Not to mention the fact that your uncle seems determined to drink away the coffers of House Jacos.” Another swig of gin. Coriane almost laughed at the irony. “How selfish.”

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419. “My mind flashes back to Grand Garden, to the beautiful, cruel creatures calling themselves human.”

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420. “The past is so much greater than the future.”

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421. “Where’s Shade?” Mom.”

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422. “Diamond walls. “That.”

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423. “The screenwriting program itself is the reason I got the chance to be a working writer, and I can’t thank them enough.”

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424. “I’m starting to think you like prisons,” he says, idling knocking his knuckles against the wall. “And that you have the worst taste in men.”

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425. “This is the world I’m trying to bring down, the world trying to kill me and everything I care about.”

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426. “I’d feel sorry for her, but my family’s infinitely worse.”

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427. “The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth.”

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428. “How many dead?” “Ten so far,” he mutters. “Three in the shooting, eight in the explosion.”

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429. “There was silver on it, blood dark from the passing hours. and her bathwater was black with it.”

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430. “Or are we just winging it now?”

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431. “But Maven is not Cal, no matter how much his father might want him to be. He isn’t a soldier, he won’t be a king, but he’s braver. And he’s willing to do what’s right.”

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432. “And I am revealed for exactly what I am – a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.”

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433. “Meanwhile, Samson strides from the arena like a titan.”

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434. “Our backs are bent by work and unanswered hope and the inevitable disappointment with our lot in life.”

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435. “We slip in like mice and find ourselves in a room crawling with hungry cats.”

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436. “At the back of the room, the exiled prince gets to his feet. He holds my gaze, as if his eyes alone could set me on fire. A waste. There is nothing in me left to burn.”

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437. “Security searches.”

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438. “He’s a burner, he controls heat and fire, I remember. He’s a prince, and a dangerous one at that.”

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439. “Evangeline, Cal, and me, all headed to Montfort. What a terrific joke.”

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440. “You.” His fingers staying on mine, hot but steady in temperature. He’s holding himself back as much as he can. “I am in love with you, and I want you more than anything else in the world.”

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441. “You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can’t believe this.”

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442. “I’m safer than I’ve been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I’ve never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.”

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443. “You could have been my red queen.”

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444. “Lightning has no mercy.”

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445. “Men are not meant to be at war for long.”

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446. “If she can keep pushing forward, still believing in what we’re doing, so can I.”

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447. “Love has a way of cutting us apart like nothing else.”

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448. “I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don’t go much further than this moment, and I fear there’s a good reason for it. A sense of dread hung over today, a black cloud I still can’t get rid of. It is an unease deep in the heart of me, feeding off my strength.”

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449. “It’s not you. I know it’s not you, son. This is not your fault.”

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450. “Cualquiera puede traicionar a cualquiera.”

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