“If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circumstance.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Anyone, anything, can betray anyone. Even your own heart.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“No heart can ever be truly understood. Not even your own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“We seem weak because we want to.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Strange, my enemies know me best, and my family doesn’t know me at all.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?
I don’t know.
And I don’t know how to make it stop.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Every single thing I did, you stood behind me,” I say. “If I’m turning into a monster, then so are you.”
“Love blinds.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“It isn't hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Don’t lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Attend to your own fate, Mare Barrow.” “And that is?” “To rise. And rise alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“But I can’t shake the feeling that, while they stand with me, there’s no one beside me. Even with an army at my back, I am still alone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“No matter how much I might want to feel him, I cannot. I must keep my eyes ahead, and away from the fire of a fallen prince. I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I’m starting to think you like prisons,” he says, idling knocking his knuckles against the wall. “And that you have the worst taste in men.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“One dark night I spilled my secrets to him, on a road thick with summer heat. I was the girl who tried to steal his money then. Now, winter looms, and I’m the girl who stole his life.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I suppose I should get used to being alone too. Not in the world, but in here. In my heart. Part”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“It’s not something you can control, Mare,” he replies, still standing so far away. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.” I feel cracked open. My skin still runs hot from Cal’s embrace, remembering the feel of him only moments ago. But in the deepest part of me, in spite of every fiber of my being, I think beyond the clearing, to ice-colored eyes, an empty promise, and a kiss aboard a boat.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Mare of the Stilts died the day she fell onto a lightning shield. Mareena, the lost Silver princess, died in the Bowl of Bones. And I don’t know what new person opened her eyes on the Undertrain. I only know what she has been and what she has lost, and the weight of it is almost crushing.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze. Winding”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“I’m safer than I’ve been in days, surrounded by the people I love most, and yet I’ve never wanted to cry more. For them, I hold back. I curl inward and bleed alone, inside, where no one else can see.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“Maven lies as easily as he breathes, and his mother holds his leash but not his heart.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“You’ll find I’m remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
“You came here with so many more followers, but you lost the ones you left with.”
― Victoria Aveyard, quote from Glass Sword
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“I had no idea what I was speaking of, but only knew I must sound confident. Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear. Odda”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Last Kingdom
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden & Civil Disobedience
“words same as always
same as nothing
when nothing is the same”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Redemption
“And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?”
― Brent Weeks, quote from The Black Prism
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