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“I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I woke up this morning as one person, and now I'm supposed to be someone else entirely.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Once, I was afraid of these walls, frightened by such beauty. But I see the cracks now.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“It's nice to hear that I'm not completely alone in feeling out of place."
"That's something you should know about us Silvers. We're always alone. In here, and here," he says, pointing between his head and his heart.
"It keeps you strong.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Cal will never turn his back on his crown, on your father."
"I know my brother. If it comes down to it, to saving your life or saving his crown, we both know what he will choose."
"He would never choose me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“As beautiful as this world is, it's just as dangerous. People who are not useful, people who make mistakes, they can be removed. You can be removed.”
― 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

“I am only human, and humans are not supposed to deal with days like today.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Why won't you leave me alone?"
"Then I'd be alone, too.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“He’s already given up. I will not.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I'm not a prince, my life has not been charming. I know to expect the worst out of everything and everyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“he’s a merciless soldier, the heir to a bloody throne.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“It’s in our nature, Julian would say. We destroy. It’s the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.
I didn’t understand that lesson a few days ago, but now, with Cal’s hands in mine, guiding me with the lightest touch, I’m beginning to see what he meant.
I can feel myself falling.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“You believe you are the masters of the world, but your reign as kings and gods is at an end. Until you recognize us as human, as equal, the fight will be at your door. Not on a battlefield but in your cities. In your streets. In your homes. You don't see us, and so we are everywhere. ... And we will rise up, Red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I’ll miss you, little lightning girl.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“we're thieves, we're rats. We know when to fight and when to run.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him.”
― Victoria aveyard, Red Queen

“Now we honor the dead, heal the wounded and avenge our fallen.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“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.” He turns hot under my touch, driven by an inner resolve. “That scares me more than dying.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen. Now you are nothing.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“She looks like hell in a
party dress, her jewelry mangled and
teeth on edge.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway