Top 500 Victoria Aveyard Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “There’s a reason my only friends are written words.”

— Victoria Aveyard

402. “Attend to your own fate.”

— Victoria Aveyard

403. “Storm Legion, killed by friendly fire, body cremated. November 19, 297 NE. Pace Gardner, Red.”

— Victoria Aveyard

404. “I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn. Luckily, I have experience in this kind of thin.”

— Victoria Aveyard

405. “I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”

— Victoria Aveyard

406. “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.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

409. “Every time he looks at me, with eyes the color of blood, I get the sense that he can see right through my skin, to the twisted thing I used to call a heart.”

— Victoria Aveyard

410. “Not pretty, is it, lightning girl?” She sneers, noting my gaze. Disdain drips from her words like venom from fangs. “But you don’t like to bother with ugly things.”

— Victoria Aveyard

411. “Something tears inside me. It’s the barrier between human and animal, between sense and madness. Suddenly I’ve forgotten the jet, the altitude, and everyone else relying on my weakening control.”

— Victoria Aveyard

412. “He loves a girl with Red blood.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

415. “Security searches.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

417. “A strange prince, an even stranger night, she wrote later. I don’t know if I ever want to see him again. But he seemed lonely too. Should we not be lonely together?”

— Victoria Aveyard

418. “I would not have liked to watch you die.” The admission is small and matter-of-fact.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

423. “Even the sky weeps for our loss. At.”

— Victoria Aveyard

424. “There’s a trigger, and you need to find yours.”

— Victoria Aveyard

425. “He only asks what he already knows the answer to.”

— Victoria Aveyard

426. “He pulls water from the fountains, from every glass, raining it down again and again. The nymph is drowning him. The.”

— Victoria Aveyard

427. “I ache for my ability the way I ache for Mare, for Thomas, for who I was supposed to be.”

— Victoria Aveyard

428. “Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.”

— Victoria Aveyard

429. “Shade appears behind her, solidifying out of thin air, and wraps her up in an expert military hold.”

— Victoria Aveyard

430. “And three for the miscarriages she suffered over the years. Each one came at night, on the heels of a violent nightmare.”

— Victoria Aveyard

431. “Never breaking eye contact, Maven slips the flamemaker bracelet from his wrist. It’s slow, deliberate, methodic. I hear it hit the floor and roll, silver metal ringing against the marble. The other quickly follows. Still watching, he leans back in the bath and tips his head. Exposing his neck. At my side, my hands twitch. It would be so easy.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

433. “My darkness will save them.”

— Victoria Aveyard

434. “This is common, since he has only one real lung.”

— Victoria Aveyard

435. “Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.”

— Victoria Aveyard

436. “Mare, don’t be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy.”

— Victoria Aveyard

437. “He must be blessed, by someone or something. My only consolation is knowing I’m right about him, and always will be.”

— Victoria Aveyard

438. “I can’t deny how much I want to go back for him.”

— Victoria Aveyard

439. “Maybe he ran afoul of his own toothbrush when he was a growing boy. Next.”

— Victoria Aveyard

440. “Sorasa spat heartily, her aim true.”

— Victoria Aveyard

441. “Tramy finally lets me go, putting me back down next to Cal, who’s doing a wonderful job looking awkward and out of place.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

443. “Diamond walls. “That.”

— Victoria Aveyard

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

— Victoria Aveyard

445. “But there’s always something left to be broken.”

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446. “Killers don’t have to make sense.”

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447. “No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.”

— Victoria Aveyard

448. “They’re the sons and daughters of important people, and to them, the war is just another place to visit.”

— Victoria Aveyard

449. “When Kilorn steps toward me, his face set and determined, his bruises and scars and bandages seem to fade. I think I see the dawn in his eyes.”

— Victoria Aveyard

450. “Mare Molly Barrow, born November seventeenth, 302 of the New Era, to Daniel and Ruth Barrow,” Tiberias recites from memory, laying my life bare.”

— Victoria Aveyard