“ What, Kilorn?' I sigh. 'What,' he echoes, shaking his head. After a long second, something snaps in him. 'I know you don't feel the same way I do. About us.' I'm seized by the urge to smash my head ag… Victoria Aveyard
“ Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance. Victoria Aveyard
“ I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword… Victoria Aveyard
“ 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
“ In school, we learned about the world before ours, about angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that.… Victoria Aveyard
“ He looks like a ghost, haunted by a life suddenly torn away, and I don’t know how to comfort him. Victoria Aveyard
“ In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again. Victoria Aveyard
“ I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake. Victoria Aveyard
“ Histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But the people of that time are gone, their dreams in ruin, existing on… Victoria Aveyard
“ Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands Victoria Aveyard
“ Thank you,” I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.”“You want to thank me, Barrow?” she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. “Then keep your word. And let… Victoria Aveyard
“ I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men. Victoria Aveyard
