Top 100 Victoria Aveyard Quotes
#1. You killed the she-wolf. It should be nothing at all to kill the pup.
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#4. You can do this." I feel him take a step toward me, his heat filling the room in a way that makes my skin prickle. But I don't look up. I won't.
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#6. I betrayed him, he betrayed me but you betrayed both of us in a thousand different ways
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#7. Cal will never turn his back on his crown, on your father."
"I know my brother. If it comes down to it, to saving your life or saving his crown, we both know what he will choose."
"He would never choose me.
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#8. He is a prince and, worst of all, the queen's son. I didn't want to trust him before this very reason, for the secrets he kept hidden. Or maybe this is what he was hiding all along...his own heart.
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#9. You came here with so many more followers, but you lost the ones you left with.
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#10. What if you're wrong? What if Norta is the beginning? The change the others need? You don't know where freedom leads.
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#12. It explodes too close, the heat pulsing through my hasty lightning shield. Dimly, I wonder if I'll die without eyebrows.
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#13. For a storm is certainly coming, whether from my hand or someone else's.
and i have no idea who will survive the dawn
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#14. How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own.
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#15. Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this," he hisses through gritted teeth.
Swooning words. A romantic declaration. I can barely stop my eyes from rolling.
"Save it for when we get her back," I grumble.
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#16. Dad chuckles darkly. "She can do as she pleases. There's no let to it.
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#18. usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples,
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#19. Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange mutation. Together, they've written a tragedy.
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#20. The crushing weight of silence hangs heavy as always. For a moment it's too difficult to breathe, and I wonder if this is how I die. Drowned in this bed of silk, burned by a king's obsession, smothered by open air.
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#22. you are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.
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#23. You put her body on display." His lips brush my ear as he forces the words through clenched teeth. Pain hums in his voice. "I'll do the same to you.
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#25. 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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#26. As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
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#29. Mare?"
"Are you afraid, Maven?"
"I am. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes. That scares me more than dying.
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#30. Strange, my enemies know me best, and my family doesn't know me at all.
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#31. I would prefer death to this cage, to the twisted obsession of a mad boy king.
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#32. I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?
I don't know.
And I don't know how to make it stop.
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#33. I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.
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#34. They're the sons and daughters of important people, and to them, the war is just another place to visit.
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#36. 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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#37. I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse - or mine.
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#38. An all-too-familiar ache rises in my chest as I settle onto my throne. I do my best to keep composed, quiet, and dutiful. Loyal to my blood. It's all I know.
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#39. Oppressing you, trapping you in an endless cycle of poverty and death, just because we think you are different from us? That is not right. And as any student of history can tell you, it will end poorly.
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#40. Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light.
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#41. Instead of trying to hold on, to push myself into this force, I let go. And I fall into what I can't explain, into a sensation that is everything and nothing, light and dark, hot and cold, alive and dead. Soon the power is the only thing in my head, blotting out all my ghosts and memories.
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#43. In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.
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#44. Our laughter melds together, a sound I recognize from days gone by. In that moment, we're different from who we are now, but the same as we've aways been.
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#45. Dimly, I hear Maven yelling somewhere, the prince charging in to save his princess. But I'm not a princess. I'm not the girl who gets saved.
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#46. Every single thing I did, you stood behind me," I say. "If I'm turning into a monster, then so are you."
"Love blinds.
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#47. I have no illusions where Maven is concerned. I know his twisted heart, and that it feels something for me. Something he wants to get rid of, but can never part with.
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#48. They never miss an opportunity to lord over the others. Either they're very vain or very aware. To look powerful is to be powerful.
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#49. 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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#50. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.
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#51. I should know better than to lie. But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul.
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#52. She says she doesn't care, but her eyes tell a different story.
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#53. All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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#54. I used to think there was only the divide, Silver and Red, rich and poor, kings and slaves. But there's much more in between, things I don't understand, and I'm right in the middle of it.
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#55. I've come this come all this way and suddenly I'm back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.
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#56. Uncle is gone, she wrote instead of all this. And somehow, in some way, I envy him.
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#57. He is a monster still, a monster always. And yet I can't stop myself from listening. Because I could be a monster too. If given the wrong chance. If someone broke me, like he is broken.
Monsters are made. So was Maven. Who knows who he was supposed to be.
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#58. I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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#60. I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don't want to taste him ever again.
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#62. Red blood is just so hard to clean up"
"You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands
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#63. Don't cry in front of Mom, apologize to Farley, figure out how to save five thousand children, nanny a bunch of Silvers, put my head through a wall. Seems doable. The
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#64. We can bomb and burn every inch of this country down, but that will never do the damage you two can do. A Silver prince turning against his crown, a Red girl with abilities. What will people say, when they see you standing with us?
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#65. move because he won't, taking us both by surprise. My lips mold to his with ferocity, and I pull him in.
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#66. I know life all too well. But I turned from that path. I'm not a rat anymore. I'm the lightning girl, and now I have too many ideas to count. Freedom, revenge, liberty, everything that fuels the sparks within me, and the resolve that keeps me going.
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#67. She looks like hell in a
party dress, her jewelry mangled and
teeth on edge.
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#68. 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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#69. I can only watch as the officer lays my sister next to me. Her eyes are on mine as he brings the butt of his gun down, shattering the bones in her sewing hand.
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#71. They don't act out of need. They are driven by want. And what they want, they get.
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#72. You don't see us,
and so we are everywhere.
And we will rise Red as the Dawn!
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#73. Bree doesn't know me as I am now, having missed almost five years of my life. But then, my life has changed more in the last two months than ever before. And only two people were with me through it. The first is imprisoned and the second wears a crown of blood.
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#74. I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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#75. He can help me survive. Better yet, he might even help me live.
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#79. Romance. We flinch at the word. There is no such thing between us anymore. Not after what we did to each other, and what was done to us. No matter how much we might want there to be.
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#83. I have lived that life already, in the mud, in the shadows, in a cell, in a silk dress. I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.
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#84. Swooning words. A romantic declaration. I can barely stop my eyes from rolling. "Save
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#85. 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.
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#87. I was four years old the first time I came here, and Maven was barely two. He hid behind his mother's skirts, afraid of the darkness and empty cells. I guess he's not afraid of the dark anymore.
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#88. 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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#89. I'm an accident. I'm a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.
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#90. I let her hold me for a long while. I do my best not to cry. My best is not enough.
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#92. 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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#93. He's strong, he's talented, he's powerful - and I'm his shadow. The shadow of the flame.
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#94. 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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#95. You better hide that heart of yours, Lady Titanos. It won't lead you anywhere you want to go.
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#96. If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos.
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#99. The hollow, headless crown lay on the throne, waiting for its next victim.
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#100. I flinch. The rag she gives me is clean, but it still smells like blood.
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