Red Queen Quotes

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

~ Victoria Aveyard

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

~ Victoria Aveyard

I do not fear pain.

~ Victoria Aveyard

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.

~ 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.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Words can lie. See beyond them.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Attend to your own fate.

~ Victoria Aveyard

We consciously decide whether to consider people, we fall in love despite ourselves, we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

~ Matt Ridley

One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

~ Victoria Aveyard

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

~ Victoria Aveyard

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

~ 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

Risk is part of the game.

~ 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