“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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“Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.”
― Matsuo Bashō, quote from Backroads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal
“As for the myths, take anyone's life and deny that most of it is deliberate self-delusion - an aggrandizement - a mixture of lies and truth, of what was wanted and what was had, producing the necessary justification for having been granted life in the first place. I was struck like a match, Lily wrote. I had no option but to burn.
You can put a period after that. Lily did. It was the story of her life.”
― Timothy Findley, quote from The Piano Man's Daughter
“We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Bend Sinister
“He stopped. “You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you”
― Iris Johansen, quote from The Killing Game
“I need to learn to recognize and identify these danger signs when I see them, and not brush them off as "eccentricities," "lovable oddities," or "a sign that he s crying out for help and the comforting of a codependent nurturer that only I, Princess Enabler, can provide. Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them. ”
― Laurie Notaro, quote from Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
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