Mare Barrow Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm a Silver, sir."

"No you are not, Mare Barrow, and you must never forget it.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. Even one small thing can go right in a world so wrong ~ Mare Barrow

Victoria Aveyard

#4. My ignorance is becoming a theme." --Mare Barrow

Victoria Aveyard

#5. Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles ... they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

Joel Spolsky

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

Victoria Aveyard

#7. Another round," she goads, and holds out a hand for the cards. "I bet a week of laundry."
Across from us, Cal stops his preparatory stretching to snort. "You think Mare does laundry?"
"Do you, Your Highness?" I snap back, grinning. He just pretends not to hear me.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. I've come this come all this way and suddenly I'm back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.

Ross Macdonald

#10. Thank you," I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both."
"You want to thank me, Barrow?" she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. "Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn." (300)

Victoria Aveyard

#11. 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

#12. They ... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Matthew Arnold

#13. Don't lie to a liar,

Victoria Aveyard

#14. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. Maven stares after his fleeing brother. "He does not like to lose. And" - he lowers his voice, now so close to me I can see the tiny flecks of silver in his eyes - "neither do I. I won't lose you, Mare. I won't."
"You'll never lose me.

Victoria Aveyard

#16. Happiness is nothing more than an emotional euphoria

Soroosh Shahrivar

#17. If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos.

Victoria Aveyard

#18. Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can't afford to let him go."
The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.
"Because no one ever gave me a choice.

Victoria Aveyard

#19. Lightning has no mercy.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. Time did a funny thing after, some days slipping away without notice while others stretched on endlessly.

Jen Nadol

#21. It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home.

Victoria Aveyard

#22. 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

#23. I would prefer death to this cage, to the twisted obsession of a mad boy king.

Victoria Aveyard

#24. His expression is unreadable, but his meaning is clear. With one hand, he points at his feet. His fingers are whiter than I remember.

I do as he says.

I kneel.

Victoria Aveyard

#25. I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second ... or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.

Chelsea Handler

#26. It's a Caster lock, not something on your locker door." Link huffed as he worked the gardening shears into the crack. "You're not from around here. Isn't a door in this whole county that can't be opened with a set of pliers or a sharp toothbrush.

Kami Garcia

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

Victoria Aveyard

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

Victoria Aveyard

#29. Papa," Alessandro said, his eyes closing. "She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.

Mark Helprin

#30. What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.

Victoria Aveyard