Madeline

“Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Heard you started smashing things again," he continues.
"You have bad taste in China." (Mare)”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“We are silver houses of noble and ancient blood, allied with rebels, criminals, servants and thieves. Abilities or not, our ways of life stand in direct opposition. Our goals are not the same. The council chamber is a powder keg. If I'm lucky it will explode. Blow apart any threat of marriage. Destroy the cage they want to put me back in.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“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