308 Quotes by Victoria Aveyard

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

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 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.

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.

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

He told me once it was cruel to give hope where none should be.

Inches for Miles. Change can be quick, or it can be slow. But the movement should always be forward.

But because I am selfish, weak, and afraid. I can’t be alone with myself, not now, not yet. So I sit, and I listen, and I watch. And through it all, I feel his eyes.

I wish there were some middle ground.” A place where our names and our blood and our pasts don’t matter. A place without weight. A place that has never been and will never exist. “Good night, Tiberias.” Hissing, he clenches a fist. “I really need you to stop calling me that.” And I really need you. I turn and walk toward my room, my footsteps echoing and alone.