Top 100 Marie Lu Quotes
#1. Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic
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#2. The things that make you special will give you all kinds of advantages in life, but they will also hold you back and expose your weaknesses.
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#3. So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.
Now, he is free.
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#4. When you've been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you're even happy, because at least you've got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.
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#6. I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me.
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#7. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."
I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.
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#8. Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.
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#10. Everything about me is stripped of color, just as Metias has been stripped from my life.
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#11. I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.
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#12. Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute."
"You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks.
"I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.
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#13. Said that gems are lingering reminders of where the gods' hands touched the earth during creation.
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#14. I'm going to follow her, of course," Magiano says. "As the night sky turns. When she appears on the other side of the world, I will be there, and when she returns here, so will I.
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#15. I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
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#16. In the silence, I sit alone on my throne and wait eagerly for all the satisfaction and triumph to hit me. I wait, and wait, and wait.
But it doesn't come.
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#17. You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.
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#18. I know that something has answered my prayer, and at the same time has also told me what my sacrifice must be. I have been offered a chance to never hurt Day again.
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#19. To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.
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#20. At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.
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#21. You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.' I narrow my eyes. 'THAT doesn't say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone's about to be executed for a mistake YOU made.
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#22. You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.
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#23. Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.
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#24. Do I frighten you?" I ask softly.
He seems to think about that. After a while, he leans back and looks skyward. "I don't know," he replies. "But I do know that I may never meet another like you again.
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#25. Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.
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#26. June, Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.
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#28. He looks like an angel, if a broken one.
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#29. I don't want--to go--I don't want--to leave you--Eden--
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#30. I glance at Magiano. "Ready?" I ask.
He winks. Rain soaks us both now, coming down in sheets, and water drips from his high knot of braids. "Always ready for you, my love.
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#31. Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.
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#32. Someday I'll see him again, and we'll tell our stories to each other ... but for now, I lock him safely away, in a place where I can draw on his strength.
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#33. I've had this dream too many times. I don't want it taken away again.
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#34. We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.
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#35. There is something quiet and warm about this tiny, temporary bond between the girl and the dog. What must it feel like to harness joy and love, instead of fear and hate? What kind of light does that cast?
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#36. See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest."
I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.
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#37. Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.
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#38. As you can see, I keep my word," I call to the rest of the crowd. "Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.
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#39. There is a yearning in you to set things right, little malfetto - you are smarter than the others, because you know there is something wrong with you. It tears at your conscience, doesn't it? You have hatred for yourself, and I admire that.
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#40. Embellish your flaws. They will turn into your assets.
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#41. As I run my sector, I can't help but smile. I'm free again, I can taste the wind and touch the sky.
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#42. There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.
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#43. I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
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#44. I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.
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#45. a wonder you've evaded the government for so long - but you can't hide now, not when your own family or friends are at risk. I have no sympathy for a criminal, I remind myself harshly. Just a score to settle.
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#46. They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door.
- The Thief Who Stole the Stars, by Tristan Chirsley
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#47. The immortal story of the White Wolf, who may have been a courageous hero or a cruel villain. Depending which version of the story you've heard.
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#49. There must be something more inside of you, Adelina." He picks out my ring finger, then runs one hand along it. My breaths quicken. "Tell me I've at least been given a malfetto daughter of some use.
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#50. I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry
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#51. Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.
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#52. Someday, you'll learn that life isn't always what you want it to be. That you won't always get what you want.
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#53. It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.
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#54. When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.
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#55. I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June ... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.
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#56. I try to imitate the effortless grace that Day and Pascao have in this urban jungle.
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#57. Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.
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#58. Don't forget one weapon just because of another," he says. A flicker of approval flashes in his eyes. "Or you'll find yourself skewered in no time."
"Then maybe you should know which weapons are real.
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#59. I have spent my entire life thinking of the Inquisitors as things, soulless creatures. But they are just men. Men can be swayed, and I have the power to do it.
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#60. Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.
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#63. But the surest way to slow your own progress is to rush yourself into situation you're not ready for.
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#64. I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.
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#65. I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat ...
Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan ...
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#66. A free state is a corporate state.
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#67. We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us." He meets my gaze. "No matter how it has wronged us.
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#68. I pat Eden's head. I'll be right back okay? Stay on the bench. Don't go anywhere. If someone tries to make you move, you scream. Got it?
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#69. I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.
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#70. When you're all alone in a world that hates and fears you, you want to find others like yourself. New friends. Elite friends.
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#71. Said the man to the sun, "How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!"
Said the sun to the man, "But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light."
---Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle
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#72. Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song
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#73. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.
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#74. For a fleeting moment, I imagine that if I were queen, I could make the act of hurting malfettos a crime. I could execute this boy's pursuers with a single command.
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#75. You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, Hi, I'm Daniel.
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#77. No. I'm not broken easily. I will never break.
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#78. June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.
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#79. He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. "Do you even love me?" he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. "I've said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I've never heard it from you.
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#80. We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
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#81. His eyes are two warnings, full of everything he wishes he could say out loud
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#82. Our hearts fill with terror at the thought of harm coming to our loved ones, don't they? You cannot have love without fear. The two coexist.
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#83. He is not Enzo, I remind myself. But I don't want him to be. With Enzo, my energy yearned for his power and ambition, all too happy to let him take me into the darkness. But with Magiano ... I am able to smile, even to laugh. I am able to sit here and lean back and point out the constellations.
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#84. Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
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#85. Raffaele slows down and reads it aloud, whispering the words as he goes. "Laetes,
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#86. That's something you'll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.
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#87. His words remind me of the strange whispers that have accompanied my illusions - something dark and vengeful, tempting and powerful. A weight presses on my chest. I am afraid. Intrigued.
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#88. But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.
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#89. On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.
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#90. I pledge myself to the Rose Society until the end of my days, to use my eyes to see all that happens, my tongue to woo other to our side, my ears to hear every secret, my hands to crush my enemies. I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.
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#91. I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.
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#92. I am not cruel," she says again. "But remember this, Master Santoro. I only ask for obedience. If that is too hard, I can help. It is easier to obey without a tongue, and easier to kneel without legs." Teren
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#93. I can taste the good-bye on his lips.
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#94. How many times have you been called an abomination?" he whispers. "A monster? Worthless?"
Too many times.
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#95. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.
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#96. Somehow I always feel better with her. It's as if she can completely sympathize with my thoughts and help me channel them away, and I can always take comfort in her lovely face.
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#97. Why so surprised, White Wolf? he murmurs, smiling a little. There is something in the way he says my Elite name, a secret sweetness.
Why so surprised that you are worthy?
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#98. I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this. The twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you. The knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god.
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#99. What you're thinking will cost you at least five thousand gold talents, mi Adelinetta,
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#100. I look on, it manages to hit the Colonies plane and ignite one of its engines, sending it careening wildly to one side and leaving a trail of dark smoke behind
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