Champion Marie Lu Quotes

#1. We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

Marie Lu

#2. 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.

Marie Lu

#3. Real love ... true love ... the kind that could last a lifetime would require a guy who loved God more than life, a guy who could lead her

Karen Kingsbury

#4. I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me

Marie Lu

#5. There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But ... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.

Marie Lu

#6. The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.

Marie Lu

#7. Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Patricia A. Woertz

#8. I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

Ed Westwick

#9. Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.

Mollie Marti

#11. I hope," he replies softly, "to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Marie Lu

#12. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Haruki Murakami

#13. Not long ago, the city patrols would have arrested him on sight. Now, he's leaving the Republic as their champion, to be celebrated and remembered for a lifetime.

Marie Lu

#14. Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don't last forever, you know. But I'll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Marie Lu

#15. Clouds suit my mood just fine.

Marie Lu

#16. Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

Bob Shacochis

#17. Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato

#18. Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade.

Auliq Ice

#19. Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

Marie Lu

#20. My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.

Marie Lu

#21. Soon college would be out, I would join the ranks of the martriculated, and the real world would steal me away for one of their own.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. You can't run a without taking risks.

Pablo Picasso

#23. 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.

Marie Lu

#24. The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#25. What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?

John Sentamu

#26. You do what you need to do.

Marie Lu

#27. Until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did.

Marie Lu

#28. He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not about to lose.

Wendy Owens

#29. I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.

John Heywood

#30. I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

Marie Lu

#31. What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?

Marie Lu

#32. June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you."
"I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.

Marie Lu

#33. I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Marie Lu