Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.”

— Marie Lu

2. “It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”

— Marie Lu

3. “Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”

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4. “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day.”

— Marie Lu

5. “Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”

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6. “You try to walk in the light.”

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7. “Every locked door has a key. Every problem has a solution.”

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8. “Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there’s a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on.”

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9. “Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.”

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10. “I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I’m tired of running.”

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11. “Without emotion, what’s the point of being human?”

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12. “Love is illogical, love had consequences – I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.”

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13. “Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it’s called.”

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16. “Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?”

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17. “My heart’s been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

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18. “Clouds suit my mood just fine.”

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19. “No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.”

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20. “The only way out is death.”

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21. “What a joke! Poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the Republic’s most famous criminal.”

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22. “The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.”

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23. “I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.”

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24. “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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25. “Forever and ever, kid, until you’re sick and tired of seeing me.”

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26. “All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn’t exist.”

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27. “I’m telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn’t kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!”

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28. “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.”

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29. “Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”

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30. “Everything I am familiar with is gone.”

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31. “I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”

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32. “Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there’s a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on. You don’t stop after you solve one thing You keep going, you find a new way and a new path, try to do better and create better. tearing something down isn’t the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is. Or maybe there isn’t such a thing as an end goal at all. You accomplish something, and then you shift, ready to accomplish the next. You keep solving one problem after another until you change the world.”

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33. “Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.”

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34. “Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.”

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35. “Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun’s click that her gun isn’t loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.”

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36. “I love you, 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. I wish you were here.”

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37. “Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”

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38. “I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.”

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39. “The king is dead. Long live the queen.”

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40. “Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?”

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41. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”

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42. “My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I’m famous all right, but I don’t think it’s what she had in mind.”

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43. “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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44. “Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.”

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45. “He wanted to live in a house built on delusion, would rather believe in a million lies than face one truth.”

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46. “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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47. “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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48. “Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”

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49. “I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn’t live long. It’s simply not written in my stars.”

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50. “But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.”

— Marie Lu