Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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.”

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452. “But I’m think that, even though there’s no one in my family willing to wait around for me, even though you’re the only one here, I couldn’t care less, because you might as well be the entire damn world.”

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453. “I’m not the prized prodigy i was when we first met.”

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

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455. “Finally, when the sunset bathes my apartment in orange and gold, I break out of my trance. I clean up the shining shards of broken glass. I dress in my full uniform. I make sure my hair is pulled back flawlessly, that my face is clean and calm and devoid of emotion. In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside. I’m a prodigy who knows the truth, and I know exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to help Day escape.”

— Marie Lu

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

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457. “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.”

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

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459. “You keep using that word – I don’t think it means what you think it means.”

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

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461. “Goodnight, June.”

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462. “The deal is done.”

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

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

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

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466. “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.”

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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.”

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

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

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470. “Where will you go?” I ask. At that, Magiano puts his hand down and turns his eyes up to the sky. It is a habit now that my eyes instinctively turn skyward, too, to where the first stars have begun to appear. “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.”

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471. “We believe that too much power in the hands of a single entity is always a dangerous thing.”

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472. “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

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

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

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475. “That’s her strength, no doubt. She heals. She’s comforting.”

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476. “Aren’t we all always searching for someone to understand us?”

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477. “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.”

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

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479. “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.”

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

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481. “If only the world were fair, Constantine replies. But no one wants that. They just want it to be fair for them.”

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

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483. “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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

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488. “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.”

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489. “I feel invincible, or invisible. One or the other, maybe both.”

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

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491. “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.”

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

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

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

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