Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Sometimes, doing the right thing means making hard decisions along the way.”

— Marie Lu

102. “Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind.”

— Marie Lu

103. “I really miss him. I miss him so much. And I’m so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.”

— Marie Lu

104. “The boy who walks in the light. The girl who shatters the shining glass.”

— Marie Lu

105. “The world would always have the liars and traitors and thieves, but there were still those who were good at heart.”

— Marie Lu

106. “What’s the point of freedom if you’re just living in a miserable reality?”

— Marie Lu

107. “Why would anyone give up the perfect fantasy reality just because they have to give up their freedom? What’s the point of freedom if you’re just living in a miserable reality?”

— Marie Lu

108. “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

109. “Logic above all else, I tell myself. Logic will save you when nothing else will.”

— Marie Lu

110. “And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”

— Marie Lu

111. “Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. – “The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass,” common folk song.”

— Marie Lu

112. “When you refuse to ask for help, it tells others that they also shouldn’t ask for help from you. That you look down on them for needing your help. That you like feeling superior to them. It’s an insult, Emi, to your friends and peers. So don’t be like that. Let us in.”

— Marie Lu

113. “They believe that objects have souls. The more love you put into one, the more beautiful it becomes.”

— Marie Lu

114. “She is my sister, always, even in death, even beyond.”

— Marie Lu

115. “Embellish your flaws. They will turn into your assets.”

— Marie Lu

116. “I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me.”

— Marie Lu

117. “You have a heavy heart, for someone with everything.”

— Marie Lu

118. “It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in an open field then a lover who will kill you in your sleep.”

— Marie Lu

119. “So many memories, so much joy and sadness.”

— Marie Lu

120. “Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places.”

— Marie Lu

121. “But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back. So I hit. I hit fast and hard and furious... And in spite of everything, I’d do it all over again.”

— Marie Lu

122. “A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.”

— Marie Lu

123. “Everything about me is stripped of color, just as Metias has been stripped from my life.”

— Marie Lu

124. “Fear clears the mind. Panic clouds it.”

— Marie Lu

125. “I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would’ve vanished. I feel like I’m hanging on by a thread.”

— Marie Lu

126. “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

127. “On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will come into such power that none will dare hurt me again.”

— Marie Lu

128. “Metias started off into the distance. “Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June,” he said after a long silence. “Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”

— Marie Lu

129. “Pain enhances beauty. – Adelina Amouteru.”

— Marie Lu

130. “You’re the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can’t catch my breath because I’m trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you.”

— Marie Lu

131. “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.” My quiet words hang in the air. “I had to hold out my hand to you.”

— Marie Lu

132. “I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”

— Marie Lu

133. “Someday, you’ll learn that life isn’t always what you want it to be. That you won’t always get what you want.”

— Marie Lu

134. “Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future.”

— Marie Lu

135. “Hideo wants me off the official games and the hunt. Zero has warned me to stay away. But I’ve never been good at following instructions. I’m a bounty hunter. And if my bounty’s still out there somewhere, I have to finish this.”

— Marie Lu

136. “Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”

— Marie Lu

137. “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

138. “He tells you to play, so you play. He tells you to curtsy, so you curtsy. He tells what you are meant to do and what you are meant not to do, so you do and you dono do. He tells you not to be angry, so you smile, you turn your eyes down, you are quiet and do exactly as he says in the hopes that this is what he wants, and then one night you realize that you have given him so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet. That you are nothing.”

— Marie Lu

139. “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

140. “Voy a destruir todo con el fin de hacer que pare.”

— Marie Lu

141. “Everyone pays lip service to world peace. They use it as a pretty answer to pointless questions, to make themselves sound good.”

— Marie Lu

142. “Thank you,” I whisper. “For everything.”

— Marie Lu

143. “At least you understand me.” He raises an eyebrow again. “Sometimes.”

— Marie Lu

144. “I need to let him go.”

— Marie Lu

145. “My Christmas ornament and Dad’s painting had been destroyed, but just because they were destroyed doesn’t mean some traces of them, however small and broken, weren’t left behind. And if there are enough pieces, you can see what the original object was supposed to be.”

— Marie Lu

146. “I am June Iparis, I remind myself.”

— Marie Lu

147. “Sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.”

— Marie Lu

148. “My name is June Iparis.”

— Marie Lu

149. “Why did you ask my opinion then, if you’ve already made up your mind?”

— Marie Lu

150. “Change never happens unless you force it.”

— Marie Lu