Quotes by Victoria Aveyard

“She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But theres a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.”

“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 dont know.And I dont know how to make it stop.”

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

“I do not fear pain.”

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

“I am the shadow of the flame.”

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

“Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”

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

“The war never leaves.”

“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 t...”

“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 d...”

“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 prin...”

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

“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.”

“I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men.”

“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”

“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 wa...”

“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.”

“Words can lie. See beyond them.”