Top 500 Marie Lu Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “There is nothing to figure out, there is no how or why. Sometimes things just happen.”

— Marie Lu

452. “Sir, we have confirmation on the escaped prisoners. There were three.” He hesitates, then swallows. “Captain Thomas Bryant. Lieutenant Patrick Murrey. Commander Natasha Jameson.”

— Marie Lu

453. “But Violetta does not wake. My eagerness wavers. In this overwhelming silence, I wait desperately for her to open her eyes. Moritas looks at me again. I can barely see her through the black, churning mist. Your time in the Underworld has not come, Adelina, she says. In giving up your power, I offer you your life back. She turns to Violetta.”

— Marie Lu

454. “It wasn’t until I saw her in the Republic a month ago, purely by accident, that fragments of her in my memories came rushing back to me. That I remembered June was the one who’d give me that paper clip ring.”

— Marie Lu

455. “You are forever a piece of my story. I couldn’t turn my back on you without turning my back on myself. I had to try.”

— Marie Lu

456. “After all, getting into a prison is never the hard part.”

— Marie Lu

457. “The first rule of fooling someone is to mix a few lies in with many truths.”

— Marie Lu

458. “Goodness is a garden that provides life to thousands of blooms. It does not rule. It gives.”

— Marie Lu

459. “I could convince myself of a lie so well that I’d sincerely think it was true. Do you know what that’s called? Self-deception, Emika. Lies are told more easily when you don’t see them as lies. My father said he wished he had my ability to believe wholeheartedly in something untrue, because if you’re able to believe anything, then you can believe your way into happiness. That’s why I’m alive, and he’s dead. Because my brain could connect that wire, and his couldn’t.”

— Marie Lu

460. “The darkness bows to me, eager for my embrace. I close my eye, open my heart to the feeling, and soak in the delight of vengeance.”

— Marie Lu

461. “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.”

— Marie Lu

462. “Cruelty is to hand out unjust punishments. I will not be unjust.”

— Marie Lu

463. “It’s not our home. But you try your best to take your home with you, even if it’s a shack in the middle of a desperate place.”

— Marie Lu

464. “Be wary of what you wish for.”

— Marie Lu

465. “Look proud, she would say to me as she patted my cheek, until you feel it.”

— Marie Lu

466. “But perhaps there was beauty in not knowing. Maybe that was its own form of love, the faith of coming together even when you couldn’t see the path in front of you, when you had no idea whether joy or heartbreak would await you further down the road of life, when you had nothing but a guiding light in the distance to yearn for.”

— Marie Lu

467. “He doesn’t reach for my hand. He doesn’t scoot closer to let our shoulders touch, he doesn’t stroke my hair, he doesn’t whisper reassuringly into my ear or rest his head against mine. I hadn’t realized how much I’ve grown to crave these little gestures.”

— Marie Lu

468. “Maybe if I were the republics darling, you’d care about me too.”

— Marie Lu

469. “Some pasts can’t be left behind. They must be fought.”

— Marie Lu

470. “Dying?” Rollan said. He hadn’t thought it would be as bad as that. The word seemed so final – the thought of their faithful rockback whales sacrificing themselves because of this journey hit him hard in the heart.”

— Marie Lu

471. “Here’s what they don’t tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.”

— Marie Lu

472. “It’s hard to sever the mind’s ties, no matter how painful they are.”

— Marie Lu

473. “Think of all that a single person can do. All the indescribable good. All the unspeakable evil.”

— Marie Lu

474. “Day runs a hand through his hair, opens his mouth to say something, and closes it again. I can tell there’s another part of this whole scenario that he’s not telling me, but I don’t press it.”

— Marie Lu

475. “I have to rub my eyes and read the captions again. They’re still there. The Elector has freed Eden.”

— Marie Lu

476. “Maybe happiness only exists in fragments. Maybe it is only the absence of grief.”

— Marie Lu

477. “Keep going. Don’t give in. Light up this world.”

— Marie Lu

478. “Guilt slices through my skin, opening veins as it goes.”

— Marie Lu

479. “Have you ever missed a person even while they’re still next to you? Like you’re waiting for their absence someday, so you try desperately to hang on to the moment, so much that you can barely exist in the present with them?”

— Marie Lu

480. “Entertainment that won’t eat up my batteries is worth bringing.”

— Marie Lu

481. “I still feel that deep-rooted commitment trying to resurface, a familiar blanket I want to wrap myself with.”

— Marie Lu

482. “Reality is the place where you can feel the cracks in your heart.”

— Marie Lu

483. “If he dies, my hands will be dipped in his blood.”

— Marie Lu

484. “The deal is done.”

— Marie Lu

485. “How could anyone resist June? She’s perfect in too many ways.”

— Marie Lu

486. “Jordan, the shy Runner with the copper braids, asks me twice if I’m okay. I just shrug her off. Yeah, something’s wrong. Isn’t that the understatement of the year.”

— Marie Lu

487. “Grief is love. It’s the price we pay for the gift of someone meaningful in our lives.”

— Marie Lu

488. “All they’re going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.”

— Marie Lu

489. “After that, I don’t know what the hell I’ll do. But I’m used to taking crises one step at a time.”

— Marie Lu

490. “No! I meant it!′ I wanted to scream. ‘It was a good-bye, the only one I could give. But I meant it. I promise.”

— Marie Lu

491. “I lost my bounty, my landlord is going to come screaming for his money again tomorrow morning, I’m going to drag myself to my waitressing job, and I’m going to be homeless in a couple of days, with nowhere to go... but tonight, I can join in with everyone else, put on my glasses, and watch the magic happen.”

— Marie Lu

492. “Stay with me,” I murmur. “Just for a little while.”

— Marie Lu

493. “I accept, then. A few hundred dinners here with you.”

— Marie Lu

494. “That I love you,” I whisper. “That I’ve been in love with you for years, even when we were separated. Especially then. I’ve lived with you in my life, and I’ve lived without you. No matter what kind of fear I feel in the possibility of us being together, the fear of being away from you is something I don’t think I can bear.” I look down, shy to meet her gaze now. “I have nightmares of losing you again. All the time.”

— Marie Lu

495. “The warmth of having Red nearby seems so real that I lean into it, letting myself believe that if I wanted to, I could youch his hand, touch his face, pull him to me, feel his whisper on my skin.”

— Marie Lu

496. “I don’t love you,’ he murmured. ‘I don’t love you, too’ she whispered back.”

— Marie Lu

497. “You live life, certain it will always stay this way, until it doesn’t.”

— Marie Lu

498. “The sight sends both a thrill and a shiver through me, bringing memories that I’ve forced into a closet in my mind, thoughts I need to keep buried if I want to stay focused, keep going.”

— Marie Lu

499. “That’s the thing about inventing new things, you can only control the genesis of it, not the evolution. And I have evolved.”

— Marie Lu

500. “Whenever June needs something, she gets results, but my needs aren’t worth a bucket of pig’s blood.”

— Marie Lu