Nicky > Nicky's Quotes

“You aren’t alone.” The hope in his eyes cuts deeply. “You have your crown.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“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

“Not a god’s chosen, but a god’s cursed. That’s what we all are.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“The person she loved is dead, stolen by someone else. Mine chose to walk away. Chose everything I hate over everything I am. I wonder which hurts more. Before”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Mare,” he whispers. “Choose me.”

Choose a crown. Choose another king’s cage. Choose a betrayal to everything you’ve bled for.

I find my thread of steel too. Thin but unbreakable.

“I am in love with you, and I want you more than anything else in the world.” His words sound hollow coming from me. “Anything else in this world.”

Slowly, my eyelids flutter open. He finds the spine to match my gaze.

“Think what we could do together,” he murmurs, trying to pull me closer. My feet hold firm. “You know what you are to me. Without you, I have no one. I am alone. I have nothing left. Don’t leave me alone.”

My breathing turns ragged.

I kiss him for what could be, what might be, what will be—the last time. His lips feel strangely cold as we both turn to ice.

“You aren’t alone.” The hope in his eyes cuts deeply. “You have your crown.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

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

“Love can be exploited, I guess, used to manipulate. It's leverage. But I would 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

“I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“But there's always something left to be broken.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Never change, Evangeline.“ Her smile flashes, quick as a knife. „Of course not. Why change perfection?”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“To rise. And rise alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Not all crowns are worn where people can see.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Cal is built from his father’s dreams, and Maven from his mother’s nightmares.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“He loved the crown before he loved me, whether he knows it or not”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Our paths may be horrible, but they're the paths we made for ourselves.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“When she moves, I realize her hair is different too. The gray ends are gone, replaced by a beautiful, familiar purple. I love it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“And somehow everyone calls me a monster.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I can't," I bite out, looking anywhere but his face. He responds quickly, with force. "Neither can I." "But I also can't - " Stay away. Keep doing this. Denying ourselves in the face of always-looming death. Tiberias hisses out a breath. "Neither can I.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I don't like being your chess piece."
"Everyone is someone else's pawn, Mare. whether we know it or not.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I am well accustomed to darkness by now. What's a few more miles?
Nothing at all.
I've always felt darkness all over me, stubborn as a stain. It follows wherever I go.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“„Mare?“ The radio is in my hand before I can even think to ask for it. „I‘m here,“ I say, locking eyes with him across a canyon. „Is it too late?”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“It's possible the girl he thought he loved is gone. I know what that's like too, to love someone who doesn't really exist.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“It sets something off in Maven. He jumps out of reach, keeping his distance from all of us. The twitching returns in force, but his eyes blaze, all fire. No fear.
"You think I can't lie through pain," he snarls, his voice thundering through the room. "You think I haven't done it a thousand times?"
...
For a brief, empty moment I see nothing but darkness, and I try not to think of Maven. His words. What his life was and continues to be.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Mother had to be careful with him, but in the end, it wasn't she who severed the last thread between us.
It was Mare Barrow.
My brilliant fool of a brother couldn't keep sight on all that was his, and what little was mine.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm