The Midnight Star Quotes

#1. 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.

Marie Lu

#2. I will need to root out these insurgents before they can become a real threat. I will need to make a harsher example of their deaths. I will need to be more ruthless.
This is my life now.

Marie Lu

#3. Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

Leslie Jamison

#4. We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

Dennis Kucinich

#5. I am the nightmare.

Marie Lu

#6. There is no room for exclusion in family ... only love.

Wes Fesler

#7. 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.

Marie Lu

#8. 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.

Marie Lu

#9. What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

Marie Lu

#10. As midnight came, he named every star in the sky after her.

Frauke Heyde

#11. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.

David Jeremiah

#12. Everyone knows that to openly show any disrespect for Magiano means instant death at my hands.

Marie Lu

#13. Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always.

Marie Lu

#14. He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

Walter Scott

#15. For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

Poe Ballantine

#17. Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?

Sam Maggs

#18. Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Billy Graham

#19. None of us are saints. We can all do better.

Marie Lu

#20. Trusting me is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.

Marie Lu

#21. I never thought much about public displays of "Will you marry me?" It seems more like putting on a show for others rather than an intimate, private and special moment between two people.

Donna Lynn Hope

#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.

Marie Lu

#23. Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Erich Fromm

#24. Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

#25. 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

#26. I'm not here to make friends. Our forces successfully conquered their northern territories regardless of their deals. And I will take the rest of Tamoura next.

Marie Lu

#27. 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.

Marie Lu

#28. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.

Marie Lu

#29. It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.

Matshona Dhliwayo