Mare Barrow Quotes

“I can't let the mistakes I've made bury me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.”
― victoria aveyard, Glass Sword

“Lightning has no mercy.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Even without her lightning, Mare Barrow still manages to strike me through.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne

“I have lived that life already, in the mud, in the shadows, in a cell, in a silk dress. I will never submit again. I will never stop fighting.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Lightning has no mercy. And neither do I.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“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.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“You want to thank me, Barrow?" she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. "Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn.”
― Victoria Aveyard

“My skin burs under Maven's gaze, with the memory of one stolen kiss. It was him who saved me from Evangeline. Cal who saved me from escaping and bringing more pain upon myself. Cal who saved me from conscription. I've been too busy trying to save others to notice how much Cal saves me. How much he loves me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I can feel him slipping down not just the hall but a dark and twisted path. It makes me afraid for the boy who taught me how to dance”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Monsters are most dangerous when they are afraid.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“We can't choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“From the pilot's seat, Cal glowers. "He's done enough." He watches me take the chair next to him, seething all the while. "You really want to storm a secret prison built for people like us?"
"Would you rather let Julian die?" No answer but for a low hiss. "That's what I thought.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“His opinion isn’t worth the rust on my fathers wheelchair”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Lightning has no mercy”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“His face turns to stone again, his eyes narrowed and icy, doing all they can to ignore what his heart wants to feel.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“I will never make the mistake of loving you ever again."
"So you choose him?"
That's all it ever was. Jealousy. Rivalry. All so shadow could defeat the flame.
"Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways. I choose no one.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“The choke?" I exclaim, perplexed.
Next to me, Cal tries his best to be civil. His best isn't very good.
"Idiocy," he snaps. "The Choke has more Silvers than you know, each one instructed to arrest or kill you on sight. If you're lucky, they'll take you back to prison.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Trust the vision, not the man. A good lesson to learn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“For a storm coming, whether by my hand or someone else’s. I have no idea who will survive dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard

“One conflict may end, but another will always begin.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“She was murdered, and I said nothing. I was afraid, and I let her die in shame”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Compórtate como si tuvieras un millón de secretos y como si fueras la única persona tan importante como para conocerlos todos.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“I've done things, terrible things, and I don't deserve forgiveness for them. But I see it in Julian's eyes all the same. And it fills me with such hope. I will not become a monster, no matter what I must do in the days ahead. I will not lose who I am, even if it kills me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“If only I were still a child, and this were all a bad dream.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“One day your lies will strangle you, King Maven. My only regret is I won't be alive to see it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“There is nothing but his eyes. Even in the darkness, they glow.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“A fortune. Our freedom is worth a fortune.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen