Victoria Aveyard Quotes

“We seem weak because we want to.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Now I'm in a king's cage. But so is he. My chains are Silent Stone. His is the crown.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Don’t lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“The truth doesn't matter. It only matters what the people believe.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“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.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“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, Queen Song

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

“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.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Cruel Crown

“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?”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“You better hide that heart of yours. It won't lead you anywhere you want to go.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I wold never call loving someone else a weakness. I think living without love at all, any kind of love, is weakness. And the worst kind of darkness.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Fear can be a good thing. Fear doesn't let you forget.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“The fallen prince is exhausting. I don't know how Mare could stand him or his inability to choose a damned side-especially when there's only one side he can possibly pick.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Risk is part of the game.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Cruel Crown

“Monsters are more dangerous when they're afraid.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I do not fear pain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“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 does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“It's to bad we didn't stay longer", I murmur, looking out at the river. "I would have liked to die close to home.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“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, Red Queen

“My mistakes cannot be undone, forgotten, or ignored. But I can make amends. I can do something now.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Attend to your own fate.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Make no mistake, my girl," he finally breathes. "You are playing the game as someone's pawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard

“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 does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?”
― Victoria Aveyard

“But still, you feel no remorse for the dead. You do whatever you can to forget them. You abandoned your family without a word. You can't control yourself. Hald the time you run away from leadership, and the other half you act like some untouchable martyr, crowned in guilt, the only person who's really giving herself to the cause. Look around you, Mare Barrow. Shade's not the only one who died in Corros. You are not the only one to make sacrifices. Farley betrayed her father. You forced Cameron to join us against her will, you chose to ignore everything but Julian's list, and now you want to abandon the kids back at the Notch. For what? To step on the Colonel's neck? To take a throne? To kill anyone who looks at you the wrong way?”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“You did almost everything the Scarlet Guard and Montfort asked. Gave up everything they wanted. Except that." He points at the crown still nestled on my head "Why? If you knew you would never be able to keep it?"

My answer sounds foolish, like it comes from a child. I say it anyway. "This is my father's crown."

"But the crown is not your father," he says quickly, rising to his feet. In two strides he has me by the shoulder, and his voice softens, "It isn't your mother either. And it won't bring either of them back.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Such words were better suited to midnight, when two girls could whisper their dreams without fear of consequence.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Queen Song

“Sometimes it's so awful I check to make sure my eyes and ears aren't bleeding. They never do. Her words never exist beyond the cage of my head.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm