“ Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can’t afford to let him go.”The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.“B… Victoria Aveyard
“ 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… Victoria Aveyard
“ One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me. Victoria Aveyard
“ 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
“ So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one. Victoria Aveyard
“ 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 m… Victoria Aveyard
“ The only person in my head is me.Tibe is not the same. The crown has changed him, as you feared it would.The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world.And it is in your son, in the prince… Victoria Aveyard
“ I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don't go much further than this moment, and I fear there's a good reason for it. A sense of drea… Victoria Aveyard
“ For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left. Victoria Aveyard
“ She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. Victoria Aveyard
“ He told me once that he didn't fear conscription as much as everyone else because the dozen bloodthirsty girls he was leaving behind were far more dangerous. Victoria Aveyard
