Top 40 Victoria Scott Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Because I see you. Even though you try so hard to hide, I see you, anyway.”

— Victoria Scott

2. “Cotton never competed in the first half of the race.”

— Victoria Scott

3. “The wolves watch us watching them and i recall the two wolves chasing the snowshoe hare across the field. How fast they claimed that animal as their prize. I remember wondering how the rabbit’s heart must have known without doubt that it would be eaten. I think about this as we turn our backs on the wolves, and head deeper into the woods. I try to bury the worry, because we’re not rabbits. We are humans. We are hunters. We are not prey.”

— Victoria Scott

4. “When I first saw the sand, I thought it was beautiful. Like maybe it’d be fun to just roll around in and make sand angels. Now I know the truth, that sand is actually the love child of proud parents Marie Antoinette and Joseph Stalin.”

— Victoria Scott

5. “When I do doze, I dream of sopapillas with thick honey drizzled over their cinnamon sugar skins.”

— Victoria Scott

6. “Ik ben in een oerwoud. Ik ben in dit stomme oerwoud. Met een magische wasbeer ” – Ransom.”

— Victoria Scott

7. “No one besides you could have steered the ship through that storm. Or I’m only able to think clearly knowing you’re here if I fail. But I decide to let it rest. After all, it’s not a big deal. He made a call, and I did, too. The problem is he didn’t consider my option for a moment. But maybe I didn’t consider his, either.”

— Victoria Scott

8. “Things only get darker from here, doll. Might want to hold my hand for this.”

— Victoria Scott

9. “Well, if you didn’t like that, this is going to feel like a swift kick to the nuts.”

— Victoria Scott

10. “I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.”

— Victoria Scott

11. “She may be an uggo, but that dress would turn anyone into a rock star.”

— Victoria Scott

12. “Jaxon sits up like a novel thought has occurred to him. “Hey, you know what I was thinking? What is W’s deal? I mean, all the other letters in the alphabet have one syllable. But look at W. Double youuuu. Why’s it got to last so long? Right when you get to the end of the alphabet song, there’s W screwing things up. Am I right?”

— Victoria Scott

13. “When you’re dealt a crappy situation, you think to yourself, At least it can’t get any worse than this. And then life.”

— Victoria Scott

14. “You want to make your own decisions, fine. But make sure you’re choosing the right ones.”

— Victoria Scott

15. “If my hair gets any frizzier, I’ll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.”

— Victoria Scott

16. “At school some kids get labeled. Too skinny. Too fat. Too smart. Too dumb. Too quiet. It’s hard to lose those labels. Maybe impossible. But i’m gonna see if there’s another label for me down by the river. Intuitive and vunerable. Smart and brave.”

— Victoria Scott

17. “But there’s often more truth found when we sleep than when we wake. Dad used to always say that.”

— Victoria Scott

18. “She’s a strong woman, and that’s more important than wearing a pretty smile for the world’s sake.”

— Victoria Scott

19. “The circle of life isn’t a circle at all. It’s a straight line with hunters on one end, and prey on the other. With my father’s rifle in my hands, there’s no question where i fall.”

— Victoria Scott

20. “Then again, maybe that’s the definition of being screwed up. That we’re so damaged that regardless of what the other person says they’ve done, we just shrug and say, Hey, as long as you don’t leave me, we’re square.”

— Victoria Scott

21. “That’s who music was truly intended for – the passionate. Those with things to say which couldn’t simply be said.”

— Victoria Scott

22. “Guy grabs my head like it’s a bowling ball and smashes it against his chest. “I said I’d never let anything happen to you again.”

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23. “And i decide, no matter how people live their lives, they leave holes. Because once a person is gone, all that’s left is the wondering. Wondering what might have happened if they’d stayed. If things were good, how much more good could they have been? And if things were bad, could they have gotten better? Now Pilot will never know the answer to that. And neither will i.”

— Victoria Scott

24. “Maybe forgiveness. Maybe understanding. Screw both.”

— Victoria Scott

25. “Why are you telling me? Do I look like a servant to you?”

— Victoria Scott

26. “We have three final challenges for you to tackle.”

— Victoria Scott

27. “Two years ago, I was just your average seventeen-year-old guy. That’s a lie. I’ve never been average. I look like a movie star and move like an athlete.”

— Victoria Scott

28. “Tough fox reputation be damned.”

— Victoria Scott

29. “So... ” Jaxon says. “Did that elephant just spit up water and we all drank it?”

— Victoria Scott

30. “He holds up two fingers – his pointer and middle – places them under his eyes, and then points in front of us.”

— Victoria Scott

31. “He stares at me, his hands clenched, his jaw tight. Cotton looks as if he wants me dead. So why, then, did he carry me here?”

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32. “If Guy is on the yacht, then the yacht is the best place to be. He knows it. I know it. The iguana probably knows it. But I find myself hesitating. Why am I hesitating?”

— Victoria Scott

33. “In front of us, Annabelle and Aspen argue over whether black-and-white movies are amazing or archaic. Blue walks a few feet behind like he’s waiting for the pair to transition from verbal zingers to hair pulling. He wants a front-row seat for that show, and I don’t blame him.”

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34. “But when Cotton touches me like this, the way Guy hasn’t in days, I find myself not caring what his reasons are.”

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35. “Willow’s brow furrows. “I don’t need you to feel sorry for me.” “Well, good,” I say. “I don’t.”

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36. “I don’t call it fear. I call it disaster prevention.”

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37. “We don’t know how long it will be before we see fresh water again, so we have to ration.”

— Victoria Scott

38. “Never mind that he got detention for flipping off half the student body.”

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39. “As Cotton holds the door open for me, and our bodies grow closer, I notice how much older he is than me. At least eight years, I’d guess. Too old, and yet young enough for me to admire the single dimple in his left cheek – a sharp contrast to his angular face.”

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40. “Sometimes it’s not what we do of our own accord, but what we do despite it going against our nature. That’s how you love.”

— Victoria Scott

41. “Larson reaches out, and together with Olivia, the twosome pulls the pig to safety.”

— Victoria Scott

42. “We don’t need anything. The woman on the device didn’t say we have to arrive with eight people, did she?”

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43. “When I near Charlie’s house, I notice she’s standing in the doorway with a spatula in her hand. Despite being on edge, I can’t stop myself from grinning. I feel like such a chick around her sometimes, like I’m seconds away from buying a tiara and starting my period.”

— Victoria Scott

44. “You could have won this race when you were thirteen years old,” she says evenly. “Those other jokers don’t know what it means to hunger.” Her.”

— Victoria Scott

45. “With Guy watching on, I say to Cotton and Harper, “Let’s eat the chowder instead.”

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46. “Mostly I remember the way I was before I became a Contender. Competing in this race is like becoming a drug addict. One small slip leads to another and before you know it, you find yourself in an impossible situation and can’t fathom how your life has spiraled so far from what it was.”

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47. “Cotton says he’s been in the race for two and a half months. Enough time to cover the jungle, desert, and ocean, and arrive safely at base camp. But then why, when I inspect his dyed black hair, don’t I see blond roots that reflect that same story? It’s something I’ve thought before but never really dwelled on.”

— Victoria Scott

48. “How can someone be cruel to this chick? It’s like picking a fight with a chipmunk.”

— Victoria Scott