Blake > Blake's Quotes

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Rise, red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Mare?"
"Are you afraid, Maven?"
"I am. 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. That scares me more than dying.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

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

“He can help me survive. Better yet, he might even help me live.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“My son the general!" King Tiberias booms, his proud voice cutting through the din of the party. For a second, when he pulls Cal close, putting an arm around his son, I forget he's a king. I almost understand Cal's need to please him. What would I give to see my mother look at me like that, back when I was nothing but a thief? What would I give now? This world is Silver, but it is also gray. There is no black-and-white.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“No one notices, no one even cares, when I fade away again. I'm a shadow, and no one remembers shadows.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“A king should know his people. That's why I sneak out,' he murmurs. 'I do it in the capital too, and at the war front. I like to see how things really are in the kingdom,instead of being told by advisers and diplomats. That's what a good king would do.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Thinking all Silvers are evil is just as wrong as thinking all Reds are inferior.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I'm a Silver, sir."

"No you are not, Mare Barrow, and you must never forget it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

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

“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Strange, my enemies know me best, and my family doesn’t know me at all.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“It isn't hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Attend to your own fate, Mare Barrow.” “And that is?” “To rise. And rise alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Don’t lie to a liar.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I kneel.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Funny, now that I’m dying, my ghosts decide to leave.

I wish they would come back.

I wish I didn’t have to die alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Even now, the fish boy takes nothing seriously. He’ll laugh his way into his grave.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Can I help you with something?" he asks. His lips twitch, fighting a losing battle against a wretched, playful grin.

I try to look cross with him, if only to keep up appearances. "You're supposed to be training."

"Worried I'm not getting enough exercise? I assure you, Mare," he says, winking, "we are."

It makes sense. Farley and Shade have been inseparable for a long while. Still, I gasp aloud, and swat his arm. "Shade Barrow!"

"Oh, come on, everyone knows. Not my fault you didn't figure it out.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“One already betrayed me, and the other might leave at any moment. But I do not fear a broken heart. I do not fear pain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Okay is no longer a word in my vocabulary.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin is ice, and I tell myself I don’t want to taste him ever again.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I hope Maven will see what we are, what we can do, and know he cannot win. Even he is not a fool. Even he knows when he is beaten. At least, I hope he does. Because as far as I can tell, Maven has never been defeated. Not when it really counts. Cal won their father, his soldiers, but Maven won the crown. Maven won every battle that truly mattered. And given time... he would’ve won me too.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword