Adelina Amouteru Quotes

#1. 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.

Marie Lu

#2. I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he's done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us.
"Maybe next time," he says to me with that smile, "you won't be so lucky.

Marie Lu

#3. Violetta's voice trembles. "Raffaele is saying that all of us, all Elites, are in danger."

That we are doomed to be forever young.

Marie Lu

#4. You have goodness in your heart, but your darkness overwhelms it all; your desire to hurt, destroy, and avenge is more powerful than your desire to love, help, and light the way.

Marie Lu

#5. Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it.
But true rulers are not born. We are made.

Marie Lu

#6. Your Majesty," he whispers, breathless. A note of amusement creeps into his voice. "You'll ruin me.

Marie Lu

#7. We are doomed to be forever young.

Marie Lu

#8. The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry.

Marie Lu

#9. After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

Marie Lu

#10. 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.

Marie Lu

#11. Enzo's eyes flick back to me. He does not ask if I will be okay. His silent approval makes me stand taller.

Marie Lu

#12. No. I cannot let him control me.
You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

Marie Lu

#13. I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I'd had as a little girl in my father's home.

Marie Lu

#14. I am the nightmare.

Marie Lu

#15. 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.

Marie Lu

#16. Set this world on fire, Enzo. With everything you have.

Marie Lu

#17. And I'm not horrified. I look at it, indulging in the darkness around me, feeding me, strengthening me, and I realize that I'm happy I killed him. Truly happy.

Marie Lu

#18. How many times have you been called an abomination?" he whispers. "A monster? Worthless?"
Too many times.

Marie Lu

#19. 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?

Marie Lu

#20. Why do you still want to find her? The whispers taunt me. Why? Why?
It's a question they ask over and over again. And my answer is always the same. Because I decide when she can leave. Not her.

Marie Lu

#21. A low, sweet sound comes from his throat. I bring a hand up to the back of his neck. Aside from the deep warmth of passion, my energy stays very, very still, and for the first time, I don't miss it.

Marie Lu

#22. You are a light," she replies gently. "And when you shine, you shine bright.

Marie Lu

#23. I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.

Marie Lu

#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.

Marie Lu

#25. The world's deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.

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#26. Don't be afraid," he says with a half smile. "You're with me." His hand tightens around my wrist, tugging me down again playfully. And this time, I feel safe enough to take a deep breath of my own and do as he says.

Marie Lu

#27. He cares for you, you know." Violetta turns her head briefly in the direction of the closed doors. "Magiano. I've seen him standing guard outside your door, making sure you aren't having another nightmare or an illusion.

Marie Lu

#28. 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.

Marie Lu

#29. I'm suddenly angry. Why must I lose everything that I care for? Why is love such a weakness? I wish, for an instant, that I didn't need such a thing.

Marie Lu

#30. 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.

Marie Lu

#31. The gods gave us powers, Adelina, because we are born to rule.

Marie Lu

#32. And just like that, I feel my power rush back over me in a flood of darkness, filling the empty crevices of my heart and mind with its familiar, poisonous comfort.

Marie Lu

#33. The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you.

Marie Lu

#34. Already, I'm starting to forget the face of the man I killed.

Marie Lu

#35. As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo's body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved.

Marie Lu

#36. Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I'm desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, caught in the middle.

Marie Lu

#37. Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.

Marie Lu

#38. Why feel guilty for something that isn't your fault?
Because I loved him. And now he is gone.

Marie Lu

#39. I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina," he finally says. "You've handed me what feels like the world's riches, a palace, a life of luxury." He draws closer. "I get to be at your side. What more do I need?

Marie Lu

#40. I could have killed Giulietta myself ... but this is better.
"I suppose she is a pure-blooded royal, after all," I say aloud. I give Teren a bitter smile. "Now you know how it feels.

Marie Lu

#41. 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.

Marie Lu

#42. I smile bitterly. "Let's not forget who killed her. You destroy all that you touch."
"Well," he whispers back, returning my smile. "Then we have much in common.

Marie Lu

#43. What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

Marie Lu

#44. Do you know what I miss the most? That night."
My heart skips a beat, aching in sudden sadness. "And what about the girl you once sat beside, on that night? Do you miss her too?"
"She is still here," he answers. "That is why I stay.

Marie Lu

#45. Something blackens your heart, something deep and bitter. It has festered inside you for years, nurtured and encouraged. I've never felt anything like it.

Marie Lu

#46. I will keep you, until the day I choose not to. You have destroyed and harmed all that is dear to me. In return, I want you to know what that feels like. I will not kill you. I will keep you alive. I will torture you." My voice drops to a whisper. "Until your soul is dead.

Marie Lu