Victoria Aveyard

No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

The war never leaves.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

I do not fear pain.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

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__ know.And I don__ know how to make it stop.

Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

Monsters are most dangerous when they're afraid

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.

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 against a rock. Us. It feels stupid to talk about, a foolish waste of time and energy. But more than that, it's embarrassing and uncomfortable. My cheeks flame red. This is not a conversation I ever wanted to have with him.

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

I am sorry, you mistook my disinterest for attention. I don´t care.

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 made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.