Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen Quotes

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

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.

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

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

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

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

we're thieves, we're rats. We know when to fight and when to run.

Everything is wrong.I am alive.

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

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

They are dead. We are dead. It is over.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

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.

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

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.

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

The war never leaves.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

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

I am the shadow of the flame.