Glass Sword Quotes

#1. 'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.

Victoria Aveyard

#2. My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.

Victoria Aveyard

#5. Don't be unkind." I'm used to ordering him around, but this sounds like a request

Victoria Aveyard

#6. We can't choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.

Victoria Aveyard

#7. The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. Glad? You're jealous, plain and simple. You're not used to sharing. And you don't like being useless.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. If only we had more time. One more week, or even one more day.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#11. Even rats want to get out of the gutter, Miss Barrow.

Victoria Aveyard

#12. I can only nod. We've faced worse, I tell myself.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. I do not fear pain.

Victoria Aveyard

#14. Okay is no longer a word in my vocabulary.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. The choke?" I exclaim, perplexed.
Next to me, Cal tries his best to be civil. His best isn't very good.
"Idiocy," he snaps. "The Choke has more Silvers than you know, each one instructed to arrest or kill you on sight. If you're lucky, they'll take you back to prison.

Victoria Aveyard

#16. Each point feels like the blow from a hammer, smashing me down to size.

Victoria Aveyard

#17. The war never leaves

Victoria Aveyard

#18. The only person Maven has to save me from is himself.

Victoria Aveyard

#19. But those people are gone. Those people must be gone. They cannot survive in a world like this.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. A Glass Eye leaped out from behind a parcked smail-trasport, blocked thier way. "Did you drop something?" Dodge asked the assassian. "Caus I think I see you ... " he unheathed his sword and swung, decapitating the Glass Eye in one blow, " ... head over there.

Frank Beddor

#21. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.

Victoria Aveyard

#22. I-I don't think you're stupid. "That might be the nicest thing you ever said to me.

Victoria Aveyard

#23. I see the crown dripping blood. A storm without thunder. Shadow twisting on a bed of flames.

Victoria Aveyard

#24. Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.

Victoria Aveyard

#25. You've been through a lot, I know that. We all know that. What you had to do to stay alive with them, all while helping us, finding out what you are, I don't know how you came out on the other side. But it changed you.

Victoria Aveyard

#26. -We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival.

Victoria Aveyard

#27. You'll find I'm remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.

Victoria Aveyard

#28. Dad chuckles darkly. "She can do as she pleases. There's no let to it.

Victoria Aveyard

#29. An eye sees only what they look for. Their sight is narrower than a blade of grass.

Victoria Aveyard

#30. Yesterday he was a prince; today he is king. I thought he was my friend, my bethrothed, but now I know better.

Victoria Aveyard

#31. They beg to a Silver king, and spit upon Red queens.

Victoria Aveyard

#32. Every single thing I did, you stood behind me," I say. "If I'm turning into a monster, then so are you."
"Love blinds.

Victoria Aveyard

#33. There are worse things than pain, Miss Barrow,

Victoria Aveyard

#34. I thought I knew Cal's heart, but now I realize that is impossible. No heart can ever be truly understood. Not even your own.

Victoria Aveyard

#35. I suppose I shoulde get used to being alone too.
Not in the world, but in here. In my heart.

Victoria Aveyard

#36. Attend to your own fate.

Victoria Aveyard

#37. From the pilot's seat, Cal glowers. "He's done enough." He watches me take the chair next to him, seething all the while. "You really want to storm a secret prison built for people like us?"
"Would you rather let Julian die?" No answer but for a low hiss. "That's what I thought.

Victoria Aveyard

#38. We seem weak because we want to.

Victoria Aveyard

#39. If you die, I'll kill you." He smiles sadly. "Likewise.

Victoria Aveyard

#40. I miss him," I whisper, enable to hold Cal's gaze. "I miss who I thought he was.

Victoria Aveyard