QUOTATIONS: KING'S CAGE BY VICTORIA AVEYARD

CHAPTER 1

"Even now, when I am painfully his, he won't let go." - Mare page 5

"I am no longer worthy of her attention." - Mare page 6

"But everything hurts already." - Mare page 7

"I want him to feel the pain of loss as terribly as I do." - Mare page 8

CHAPTER 2

"Once again, I put my trust in someone I shouldn't have." - Mare page 17

"My agony is useless to him." - Mare page 18

"But no one comes for me. No one is coming for me. It's cruel to give hope where none should be." - Mare page 19

"A choice I'll not forget." - Evangeline page 23

CHAPTER 3

"To look powerful is to be powerful." - Mare page 27

"The time for tears is over." - Evangeline page 29

CHAPTER 4

"It feels terrible to be feaered. And worst of all, I can't blame anyone for it." - Cameron page 44

"I have long since learned that paradise does not exist in this world." - Cameron page 46

"If you can't stomach intelligence, then don't come to control." - Colonel Farley page 47

"How many times does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?" - Cameron page 47

"If your heart's not in this, you're going to get a lot of people killed." - Cameron page 48

"Win at all costs." - Cameron page 50

CHAPTER 5

"Actually, I find it difficult being this close to you." - Maven page 56

"Never tell me what I cannot do. And never underestimate what I will do." - Maven page 58

CHAPTER 6

"I feel the familiar longing for a boy who does not exist." - Mare page 73

CHAPTER 7

"Information is more important than anything." - Cameron page 78

"One more person I will never, ever turn my back on. It's a long list." - Cameron page 79

"You're not the only one who can be dramatic." - Cameron page 89

CHAPTER 8

"Good to see not even I can change you." - Maven page 93

"Careful, my dear, A king without supporters is no king at all." - Evangeline page 99

"He has taken everything from me, but I won't give him my fear or my dignity. I won't run away now." - Mare page 99

"Go bother someone who can fight back." - Mare page 101

CHAPTER 9

"I will never forgive him for his betrayal." - Mare page 106

"They forget that strategy is not only for the battlefield." - Mare page 109

CHAPTER 10

"In spite of my circumstances, my painful scars, I smile." - Mare page 113

"If only your brain were as quick as your mouth." - Evangeline page 117

"I want to look into his eyes and see him leave me forever." - Mare page 128

"I have no mercy or remorse for traitors. Especially stupid ones." - Maven page 132

"Monsters are most dangerous when they're afraid." - Mare page 132

CHAPTER 11

"No one gets to tell me where to go or what to do. I'm done with that. I lived my entire life that way." - Cameron page 132

"You're not my captain. You don't get to tell me what to do with my life." - Cameron page 139

"Control takes more practice than brute force." - Cameron page 142

CHAPTER 12

"You stare so much I wonder if you can read reflections in my eyes." - Maven page 148

"In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?" - Mare page 152

"I lost every  other person I ever loved." - Maven page 152

"The pain makes you stronger. Love makes you weak." - Maven page 155

CHAPTER 13

"Fear overrules my senses." - Mare page 165

CHAPTER 14

"I would do things differently. I would be different." - Mare page 177

"My mistakes cannot be undone, forgotten, or ignored. But I can make amends. I can do something now." - Mare page 177

"War is not what I waws made for." - Maven page 183

"I wish I would disappear. I wish I were on the other side of the world." - Mare page 184

"Stupid people are easier to control." - Maven page 185

"Don't compare me to you. We're not the same." - Mare page 186

"People like us. We lie to everyone. Especially ourselves." - Maven page 186

CHAPTER 15

"And no one is stupid enough to try to force me anywhere I don't want to go." - Cameron page 193

"But I remember what it feels like to use silence as a weapon." - Cameron page 194

"I've lost enough on ifs and maybess." - Farley page 200

"No use dwelling on what we can't change." - Farley page 202

"But I've been broken too many times to  break again." - Cameron page 205

"His charm has its limits." - Cameron page 206

"As much as I know I hate these people. I can't find it in me to hate right now." - Cameron npage 216

CHAPTER 16

"I can start to right so many wrongs." - Mare page 221

"It's impossible to avoid the horrors you really don't want to think about." - Mare page 222

CHAPTER 17

"I've been someone else's puppet for too long. My voice is not my own." - Mare page 234

"Many strange people have passed through my life. But all of them have pieces I can understand. Emotions I know, dreams, fears." - Mare page 237

"But then boys are so strange with their toyr. Especially those accustomed to losing things. They hold on more tightly than the rest." - Iris page 238

"He is broken, and there is no healer on this earth who can make him whole." - Mare page 241

"I feel nothing but hatred toward him. i cannot allow anything else, even pity, to creep in." - Mare page 245

"It would be so easy to say to let the broken pieces of me fall apart." - Mare page 248

"Broken things make me feel a bit better." - Mare page 249

"I chase the pain. It's one of the only things to remind me I'm still alive in this shell." - Mare page 249

"You think I want to keep you a prisoner? It's the only way you'll stay with me." - Maven page 257

"I am world's away from perfect, or even good." - Mare page 258

"Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light." - Maven page 258

"You are the only person I care about, the only person who reeminds me I am alive, not empty. And not alone." - Maven page 259

"And if I could change who I am, how I think, I would." - Mare page 259

CHAPTER 18

"I'm not supposed to shine, I don't want to shine - and next to her, I certainly won't." - Mare page 261

"I'm going to kill you one day." - Mare page 275

"I can't afford pain right now." - Mare page 288

CHAPTER 19

"I don't have the time or energy to waste on weak things." - Evangeline page 294

"Th eonly bond in my world is blood; the only promise is family." - Evangeline page 295

"A weak king we could control, but there's no handline madness." - Evangeline's mother page 304

"Now I have no idea what might unfold. I don't like the feeling at all. My life has been a study in planning and patience. An uncertain future frightens me." - Evangeline page 305

"What are you meant for, if not to rule?" - Evangeline's mother page 306

"Be the best, the strongest, the smartest, the most deadly and the most cunning. The most worthy. And I was everything." - Evangeline page 306

"I hate not knowing." - Evangeline page 306

CHAPTER 20

"I wish I could make you forget." - Cal page 314

"No one else is going to see my fear." - Mare page 319

"Time doesn't always heal wounds. Once in a while, it makes them worse." - Mare page 322

CHAPTER 21

"I've done it so many times before. I pushed away the people closest to me, thinking I could bleed alone." - Mare page 328

"I know better now. I know who I am." - Mare page 332

"I may be scared, but I'm not weak." - Mare page 333

"I have very little trust left in me, and I won't waste it on someone I just met." - Mare page 345

"I refuse to live this way." - Mare page 349

"After so long at the mercy of others, it feels good to know someone will allow me my own choices." - Mare page 349

CHAPTER 22

"I have no fear of giving my body to a person I love." - Mare page 355

"No kind of love can erase his fault's just like non can erase mine." - Mare page 356

"There's too much anger in me. Too much hate." - Mare page 363

CHAPTER 23

"But power is the only currency here. Strength the only coin." - Evangeline page 368

"Life itself knows we are their masters." - Volo page 368

"You are never your own." - Evangeline page 379

"A few weeks of the closes thing to freedom I've ever known - and I can't let it go. I can't go back to living for someone else's ambitions." - Evangeline page 379

"My life has never been my own and it will never will be." - Evangeline page 379

CHAPTER 24

"Not knowing what's going to happen. I don't understand it. It's - it's scary." - Morrey page 381

"I don't want to see them turn you into a weapon." - Morrey page 382

"Fear can be a good thing, Cam. Fear doesn't let you forget. And the fear you have, the respect you have for this deadly thing inside of you. i think that's an abitlity too." - Morrey page 384

"I can't turn my back. There's too much anger in me. If I don't find a way to get rid of it, it might poison me for the rest of my life." - Mare page 386

"Holding on will eat me alive." - Cameron page 386

CHAPTER 25

"Sometimes...I don't think before I speak." - Mare page 390

"I didn't want friends. Friends are harder to say good-bye to." - Mare page 396

"People this nice are always hiding something." - Mare page 399

"I am in love with you, and I want you more than anything else in the world." - Cal page 406

"I love you. Promise me. Promise you won't leave." - Mare page 407

CHAPTER 26

"I'm willing to join a war to find some semblance of peace." - Mare page 420

CHAPTER 27

"Don't forget who you are." - Cal page 422

CHAPTER 28

"Divide and conquer, Miss Barrow. It's the only way to beat them." - Davidson page 442

CHAPTER 29

"I don't want to belong to anyone. But what I want doesn't matter." - Evangeline page 454

"I wish I didn't have to suffer this alone." - Evangeline page 461

"Our world has changed. We must change with it." - Volo page 462

"Is this what the rest of my life will feel like? I want to be strong. This is what I trained and suffered for. This is what I thought I wanted. But freedom was too sweet. One gasp of it and I can't let go." - Evangeline page 463

"Power seduces all, and it makes us blind." - Evangeline page 465

EPILOGUE

"It makes it harder to stay angry, and without anger I have only fear and sorrow." - Mare page 466

"Is this the part where I ask you to choose me?" - Mare page 467

"You know what you are to me. Without you, I have no one. I am alone. I have nothing left. Don't leave me alone." - Cal page 468

"I know now, I didn't know what love was. Or what even the echo of heart break felt like. To stand in front of a person who is your whole world and be told you are not enough. You are not the choice. You are a shadow to the person who is your sun." - Mare page 469

"A good person at  his core, but unwilling to act." - Mare page 469