Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “My heart’s been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might’ve succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might’ve built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered.”

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152. “We have risked our lives for our country – not the country we live in now, but the country we hope to have.”

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153. “Desire is your lifeblood, and talent is the flower it feeds.”

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154. “Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.”

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155. “Some of us are broken and there’s nothing you can do to fix it.”

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156. “Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we’ll find each other again.”

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157. “Why do I even care? It shouldn’t hurt this much.”

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158. “I’m prouder of him than I’ve ever been of myself – I’m proud of him for standing up to me.”

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159. “I refuse to believe that he’s nothing more than a monster. I can’t watch him sink like this. I keep going because I need to find that boy again, the beating heart buried underneath his lie. I have to stop him in order to save him. He was once the hand that pulled me up. Now I have to be his.”

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160. “And what if they don’t respond to your call?” June says. I shoot her a quick smile. “Have some faith, sweetheart. The people love me.”

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161. “I pat Eden’s head. “I’ll be right back okay? Stay on the bench. Don’t go anywhere. If someone tries to make you move, you scream. Got it?”

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162. “You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you’re ready to take the step over to our side, I’ll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count.”

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163. “Don’t cry. You are stronger than that.”

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164. “The immortal story of the White Wolf, who may have been a courageous hero or a cruel villain. Depending which version of the story you’ve heard.”

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165. “I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.”

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166. “The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?”

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167. “I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.”

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168. “Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future. I had a hundred thousand of these lines, and in one day they were severed, leaving me with nothing but a stack of his medical bills and gambling debt. Death didn’t even give me somewhere to direct my anger. All I could do was search the sky.”

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169. “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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170. “They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.”

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171. “Every morning, everything’s possible again. Right?”

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172. “When emotion fails, logic will save you.”

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173. “When you’re all alone in a world that hates and fears you, you want to find others like yourself. New friends. Elite friends.”

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174. “I am numb. I don’t know what to do. The absence of my link to Enzo is a yawning chasm, a hollowness I first felt when Teren took Enzo’s life in the Estenzian arena. How long had he been a part of my world? How had my life been before he stepped into it? All I can think is that I am losing him all over again, except that I already lost him.”

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175. “Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we’ll find each other again.”

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176. “You rarely regret the things you do, but always the things you don’t.”

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177. “But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back.”

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178. “I hear myself gasp, As if I expected a different ending. As if once I hear it enough times, the story will change. It never does.”

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179. “Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book for boys or for girls is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.”

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180. “When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.”

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181. “You are not your father,” I say, holding his gaze with my own. “You’re Anded. You don’t have to follow in his footsteps; you have your own. You’re the Elector now. You don’t have to be like him.”

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182. “And then, as if he understands me better than anyone in the world, he whispers, “It will make this night a little less dark.”

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183. “He is not Enzo, I remind myself. But I don’t want him to be. With Enzo, my energy yearned for his power and ambition, all too happy to let him take me into the darkness. But with Magiano... I am able to smile, even to laugh. I am able to sit here and lean back and point out the constellations.”

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184. “The Republic is weak and broken.” I narrow my eyes. “But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.”

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185. “The darkness was his ally, not his enemy.”

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186. “Everything good about me, I learned from you,” I whisper. “You’re giving me too much credit. We got it from our parents.” Metias chuckles a little. It’s a sad sound. There’s another long, ten-second pause before he goes on. “You’ll find your tribe,” he says. “We all do. Someday, someone out there will see you for the girl you really are. Someday, you’ll find someone who understands you.”

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187. “Because, sometimes, being patriotic means calling out the problems rotting away your country. I’m not saying we don’t want to work with you. But we represent millions of voices you’re not hearing right now. If you want to preserve the spirit of what made Antarctica a world leader to begin with, you should take a look at your blind spots.”

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188. “I have never known the mind of a wolf hunting a deer, but I imagine it must feel a little like this. The twisted excitement of seeing the weak and wounded cowering before you. The knowledge that, in this instant, you have the power to end its life or grant it mercy. In this moment, I am a god.”

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189. “I will keep you, until the day I choose not to. You have destroyed and harmed all that is dear to me. In return, I want you to know what that feels like. I will not kill you. I will keep you alive. I will torture you.” My voice drops to a whisper. “Until your soul is dead.”

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190. “I am not cruel,” she says again. “But remember this, Master Santoro. I only ask for obedience. If that is too hard, I can help. It is easier to obey without a tongue, and easier to kneel without legs.” Teren.”

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191. “It’s the duty of a Republic soldier to be loyal to the end, and I’m still a soldier. I will be one until I die.”

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192. “Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?”

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193. “Even if we don’t know where we’ll go in the future, perhaps our lives were always meant to collide again and again. Perhaps we are forever meant to be each other’s catalysts.”

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194. “What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?”

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195. “I promise I’ll miss you forever,′ I whisper. ‘I promise I’ll miss you forever,’ he echoes.”

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196. “He trusts me-truly, stupidly, wholeheartedly trusts me. In fact, I don’t know if anyone had ever taken my word so readily before.”

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197. “There are four places where the spirits still wander,” he replies, quoting some ancient tome. “The snow-covered Dark of Night, the forgotten paradise of Sobri Elan, the Glass Pillars of Dumon, and the human mind, that eternally mysterious realm where ghosts shall forever walk.”

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198. “It is not weakness to open your heart. It does not make you less of a man to to ask for help. To turn to someone when you’re vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on. You don’t have to bear the weight of anything by yourself.”

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199. “Plans. They’re fickle things.”

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200. “Trusting me is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.”

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