Victoria Aveyard Quotes

Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I know! he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

~ Victoria Aveyard

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

~ Victoria Aveyard

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

~ Victoria Aveyard

He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Life has simply decided to open the floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns.

~ Victoria Aveyard

To my dismay, he recovers quickly and smoothes his hair. So you choose him?That's all this ever was. Jealously. Rivalry. All so shadow could defeat the flame.I have to throw my head back and laugh, feeling the eyes of the brothers on me. Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed both of us, in a thousand different ways. The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. I choose no one.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Lightning has no mercy.

~ Victoria Aveyard

And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.

~ Victoria Aveyard

In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.

~ Victoria Aveyard

In school, we learned about the world before ours, about angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Don't lie to a liar

~ Victoria Aveyard

Risk is part of the game.

~ Victoria Aveyard

The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I am sorry, you mistook my disinterest for attention. I don´t care.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

~ Victoria Aveyard

What, Kilorn?' I sigh. 'What,' he echoes, shaking his head. After a long second, something snaps in him. 'I know you don't feel the same way I do. About us.' I'm seized by the urge to smash my head against a rock. Us. It feels stupid to talk about, a foolish waste of time and energy. But more than that, it's embarrassing and uncomfortable. My cheeks flame red. This is not a conversation I ever wanted to have with him.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

~ Victoria Aveyard

He told me once that he didn't fear conscription as much as everyone else because the dozen bloodthirsty girls he was leaving behind were far more dangerous.

~ Victoria Aveyard