Maven Quotes

#1. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

Nolan Bushnell

#2. Maven has miscalculated. He believes enough corpses will make me come back. But I will not.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven's obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. I still had sting my eyes, prickling at Maven's memory. It's hard to forget him as he was. No. As he pretended to be. The kind, forgotten boy. The shadow of the flame.

Victoria Aveyard

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#7. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

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

Victoria Aveyard

#9. Cal's touch has not erased Maven's. My memories are still there, still just as painful as they were yesterday. And as much as I try, I have not forgotten the canyon that will always stretch between us. No kind of love can erase his faults, just like none can erase mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. Wish him a happy birthday for me. And assure him it will be his last. But yours is coming, isn't it? I don't doubt we'll spend it together. Until we meet again, Maven

Victoria Aveyard

#11. The social media maven spends his or her time creating a self-caricature, a much happier and more photogenic version of real life. People subtly start comparing themselves to other people's highlight reels,

David Brooks

#12. All thoughts of newbloods and Maven, my brother and Cal and Kilorn are gone entirely. Even the faces that haunt me, the faces of the dead, have disappeared.Funny, now that I'm dying, my ghosts decide to leave. I wish they would come back. I wish I didn't have to die alone.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#14. A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems - his own emotional needs - by solving other people's problems.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. I'm a monster, I'm a maven,
I know this world is changin'.
Never gave in, never gave up,
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

Kanye West

#16. I am not a general or a tactician, but her reasoning is clear. I am the little lightning girl - living electricity, a lightning bolt in human form. People know my name, my face, and my abilities. I am valuable, I am powerful, and Maven will do anything to stop me from striking back.

Victoria Aveyard

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

Victoria Aveyard

#18. I can't help but remember that my lips, now smiling for Maven, were kissing his brother last night.

Victoria Aveyard

#19. When tears spring to his eyes, I know the king's heart, no matter how small or cold, has been broken. He loves Maven, in his own way. But it's too late for that.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times doe one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?

Victoria Aveyard

#21. Cal might be born to rule, but Maven was meant for it. And Maven is willing to change the world for us, for the Reds he was raised to spit on.

Victoria Aveyard

#22. Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.

Victoria Aveyard

#23. Your hands are no cleaner than mine, Maven.

Victoria Aveyard

#24. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#25. My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Bryan Batt

#26. The guard won't stop. And while they are certainly to blame, you are as well. There is blood on your hards, Prince. And Maven's. And mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#27. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#28. 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.

Victoria Aveyard

#29. She has every reason to be mad. I just wish I could do something. She's no soldier like us. She's kind and gentle."

"Aye," Maven nodded in agreement. "Not all of us are built for it. What kind of world would it be if we were?

B.M. Tolbert

#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. Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not ... as long as they understand it isn't EASY.

Max Maven

#32. 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

#33. And his eyes are worst of all. Her eyes, Elara's eyes. Once I thought them cold, made of living ice. Now I know better. The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception.

Victoria Aveyard

#34. I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse - or mine.

Victoria Aveyard

#35. There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.

Max Maven

#36. But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.

Max Maven

#37. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet?

Charlotte Henley Babb

#38. Most magicians are afraid of magic.

Max Maven