Steel Scars Quotes

“Don’t touch me,” I snarl. “What was that? What happened? Where am I?” “Careful, you’re turning into a philosopher.”
― victoria aveyard , Steel Scars

“And you’re late.”

“I prefer chronologically challenged.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Information is more dangerous than any weapon we possess.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Belief doesn’t make it easy to take a bullet.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I used to wonder what kinds of idiots are fighting this Silver war, if they insist on containing the battlegrounds to the forsaken Choke. The northern border is long and winding, cutting along the river, mostly forested on both sides, always defended but never attacked. Of course, in the winter, it’s a brutal land of cold and snow, but what about the late spring and summer? Now? If Norta and the Lakelands hadn’t been fighting for a century, I would expect an assault on the city at any moment. But there’s nothing at all, and never will be.

Because the war is not a war at all.

It is an extermination.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Delivering uniforms is safer than wearing them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Rage is a double-edged sword, and this woman has been bled by both edges.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I’d rather a black eye than a puzzle.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I have my suspicions,” he replies after a long moment.

“And they are . . . ?”

“My own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Todos tenemos cicatrices y fantasmas propios.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Don’t touch me,” I snarl. “What was that? What happened? Where am I?”
“Careful, you’re turning into a philosopher.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I have my suspicions,” he replies after a long moment.
“And they are . . . ?”
“My own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I assume the old, the sick, and the children set to conscript do not make any of your proposals. No use saving the ones who truly need it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“For a man who can move faster than the blink of an eye, somehow he manages to take the world’s slowest step forward.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“There is no Red on earth so cold as a Silver.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Don’t touch me,” I snarl. “What was that? What happened? Where am I?”

“Careful, you’re turning into a philosopher.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“As I watch, the last of the convoy leaves the eastern gate.

“The Prayer Gate,” Barrow mutters.

“Hmm?”

He taps my glass, then points. “We call it the Prayer Gate. As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray never to return.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Hard enough sleeping on the ground without listening to rustling tents.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“They’re careful to step in the leader’s footprints. Any tracker would think only one person came this way, not four.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I enter my barracks on my own, chin raised. I don’t know why I was chosen for this, why Command wants me to be the one to shout our words. But I’m sure there’s a good reason. A young woman holding a flag is quite a striking figure—but also a puzzling one. Silvers might send men and women to die on the lines in equal measure, but a rebel group led by a woman is easier to underestimate. Just what Command wants. Or they simply prefer I’m the one eventually identified and executed, rather than one of their own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“Then a bit of a celebration is in order.”

The Colonel all but sneers. “You want to celebrate being a poster girl? Or would you rather cheer a suicide mission?”

Now I really do smile. “I don’t see it that way.” Slowly, I fold the orders again and slip them into my jacket pocket. “Tonight, I drink to my first independent assignment. And tomorrow, I head to Norta.”

“Your eyes only, Captain.”

When I reach the door, I glare at him over my shoulder. “As if you didn’t already know.”

His silence is admission enough.

“Besides, I’ll still be reporting to you, so you can pass on my relays to Command,” I add. I can’t help but goad him a little. He deserves it for the nanny comment. “What’s that called? Oh yes. The middleman.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“His office would make a marvelous tomb. No windows, concrete walls, and a lamp that always seems to burn out at precisely the wrong moment.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“There’s no rules against fraternizing within the organization, so long as the job gets done and everyone comes back alive.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“I’ve long stopped questioning why this is allowed to continue. I was not raised to accept a master’s cage, not like so, so many are. What I see as a maddening surrender is the only survival to so many others. I suppose I have the Colonel to thank for my stubborn belief in freedom. He never let me think otherwise. He never let me accept what we came from. Not that I’ll ever tell him that. He’s done too much to ever earn my thanks.

But so have I. That’s fair, I suppose. And don’t I believe in fairness?”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars

“A rebellion contained to its borders would eventually fail, stamped out by the other nations of the continent. But something bigger, a wave across two kingdoms, another foundation to explode beneath the Silvers’ cursed feet—that has a chance. And a chance is all I require to do what I must.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Steel Scars