Top 100 Victoria Aveyard Quotes
#1. One day you men will learn
to pay attention and all the world will
tremble.
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#3. Yesterday he was a prince; today he is king. I thought he was my friend, my bethrothed, but now I know better.
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#5. I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.
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#6. 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?
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#7. At the back of the room, the exiled prince gets to his feet. He holds my gaze, as if his eyes alone could set me on fire. A waste. There is nothing in me left to burn.
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#8. This is how children are at first, when they can't control themselves. Their abilities present in times of stress or fear, until they learn to harness those emotions and use them to their advantage. There's a trigger, and you need to find yours.
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#9. I lost every other person I ever loved."
"And whose fault is that?
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#10. No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.
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#11. What I need and what I want are two very different things.
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#13. 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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#14. 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.
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#15. I grew up wondering if I'd have food for supper; now I'm standing in a palace about to be eaten alive. Red
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#17. usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples,
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#18. One dark night I spilled my secrets to him, on a road thick with summer heat. I was the girl who tried to steal his money then. Now, winter looms, and I'm the girl who stole his life.
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#19. An eye sees only what they look for. Their sight is narrower than a blade of grass.
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#20. I feel something like hands around my throat, threatening to squeeze the life from me. Each word tightens the grip, as if ink alone can strangle me. For a second, I fear I might not breathe again.
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#22. It is not death I fear, not anymore. I've faced dying too many times to be afraid of it.
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#23. Dad chuckles darkly. "She can do as she pleases. There's no let to it.
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#24. A strange prince, an even stranger night, she wrote later. I don't know if I ever want to see him again. But he seemed lonely too. Should we not be lonely together?
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#25. This started when I fell into the Spiral Garden, a body made of sparks, and now it ends at the Bowl of Bones. I'll leave as a corpse.
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#26. He can't let me die. He won't I am the little lightning girl, and I am going to make the world change.
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#27. The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what the people believe.
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#28. As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
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#29. 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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#30. we're reduced to our bones, to two teenagers grumbling in a cage. I
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#31. 'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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#33. But I need him. And I can't find the strength to let him go. Though
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#34. 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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#35. My ability is my most prized possession, even though it separates me from everyone else. But for power, for my own power, it is a price I am willing to pay.
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#36. And some will believe. The fools. But others will not. Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth.
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#39. In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?
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#40. you are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.
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#43. Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.
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#45. I am only human, and humans are not supposed to deal with days like today
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#46. 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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#47. From now until the end of your days, you must lie. Your life depends on it, little lightning girl.
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#48. I-I don't think you're stupid. "That might be the nicest thing you ever said to me.
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#50. They have their own version of truth, and that's the only one people will hear.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I betrayed him, he betrayed me but you betrayed both of us in a thousand different ways
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#55. ...and who looks at a shadow when then have a flame? Who would ever choose a monster over a god?
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#56. I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.
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#57. The lightning girl is easier to read than the pages of a children's book.
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#59. The smell made it really hard to be friends with you."
"Probably why we stuck together. No one else could handle my stink or your attitude.
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#61. Under her breath, I hear her whisper something to herself.
"As you enter, you pray to leave. as you leave, you pray never to return."
Even though no one is listening, I pray too.
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#62. 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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#63. For all their strength, all their power, they still know the meaning of fear.
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#64. 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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#65. 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.
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#66. While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.
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#67. Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.
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#68. They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.
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#69. I suppose he doesn't know where he stands anymore. Not a rebel, not a prince, not sure of anything except the fire in his bones.
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#70. Mare, don't be such a brat all the time, and stop beating up that Warren boy.
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#71. He is not only a distraction I can't afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.
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#72. I see the crown dripping blood. A storm without thunder. Shadow twisting on a bed of flames.
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#74. I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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#75. You killed the she-wolf. It should be nothing at all to kill the pup.
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#77. The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.
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#79. 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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#80. How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own.
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#81. You'll find I'm remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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.
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#85. It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.
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#86. I suppose I should get used to being alone too. Not in the world, but in here. In my heart. Part
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#87. I can't help but remember that my lips, now smiling for Maven, were kissing his brother last night.
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#88. Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
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#89. Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.
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#90. I'm standing on the balcony a full ten seconds before I realize it's raining, washing me clean of my boiling anger.
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#91. Somehow, the person who never existed haunts me, worse than the rest of my ghosts.
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#92. 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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#93. I assume he is the one unfortunate enough to be called Ptolemus.
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#94. The door swings inward as the first soldier rounds the corner, but my thoughts are only of Cal. It seems princes make me blind.
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#95. You came here with so many more followers, but you lost the ones you left with.
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#96. 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." He turns hot under my touch, driven by an inner resolve. "That scares me more than dying.
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#97. I woke up this morning as one person, and now I'm supposed to be someone else entirely.
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#98. 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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#99. -We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival.
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#100. I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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