Victoria Aveyard Quotes

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

~ Victoria Aveyard

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I am the shadow of the flame.

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Shocked to see me? I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

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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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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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I do not fear pain.

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Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

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Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

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The war never leaves.

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For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

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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.

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No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.

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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

I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don't go much further than this moment, and I fear there's a good reason for it. A sense of dread hung over today, a black cloud I still can't get rid of. It is an unease deep in the heart of me, feeding off my strength.

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The only person in my head is me.Tibe is not the same. The crown has changed him, as you feared it would.The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world.And it is in your son, in the prince who will never change his blood and will never sit a throne. The only person in my head is me. The only person who has not changed is you. You are still the little girl in a dusty room, forgotten, unwanted, out of place. You are the queen of everything, mother to a beautiful son, wife to a king who loves you, and still you cannot find it in yourself to smile. Still you make nothing. Still you are empty. The only person in your head is you. And she is no one of any importance. She is nothing

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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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In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal was made too. All of us were made by someone else, and all of us have some thread of steel that nothing and no one can cut. I thought Cal was immune to the corruptive temptation of power. How wrong I was. He was born to be a king. It's what he was made for. It's what he was made to want.

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histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But the people of that time are gone, their dreams in ruin, existing only in smoke and ash.

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So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

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Words can lie. See beyond them.

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In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?

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They are dead. We are dead. It is over.

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One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

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While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.

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I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

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Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this

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Attend to your own fate.

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No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.

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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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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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We’ve taken everything from her, brother,” Maven murmurs, drawing close. “Surely we can give her this?” And then slowly, reluctantly, Cal nods and waves me into his room. Dizzy with excitement, I hurry inside, almost hopping from foot to

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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

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

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In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

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Everything is wrong.I am alive.

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As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.

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For all his clever ideas, Maven has nothing to say to this. He just stares, his breath coming in tiny, scared puffs. I know the look on his face; I wear it every time I’m forced to say good-bye to someone. “It’s too bad we didn’t stay longer,” I murmur, looking out at the river. “I would have liked to die close to home.” Another breeze sends a curtain of my hair across my face but Maven brushes it away and pulls me close with startling fero

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we're thieves, we're rats. We know when to fight and when to run.

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Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

~ Victoria Aveyard