Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable. – But tonight, we stay where we are, holding on, lost in the dark.”

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203. “Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always. “Magiano... ,” I start to say. “I don’t want to leave this world having never been with you.”

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204. “I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.”

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205. “I’m supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.”

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206. “For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I’ll never say to him aloud.”

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207. “There’s a conflicted look in Day’s eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.”

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208. “All men are villains. He was afraid, I realized, and I wonder now if it was because he his proclamation made him a villain too.”

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209. “No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I’ve already hurt him. “You’re the Elector. You don’t have to do anything. And if you care about the Republic, you won’t risk angering the one person who the public believes in.”

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210. “I know what it’s like to live in a place where people have no choices. What happens in a world like that, when you’re unable to speak out against something you think is wrong?”

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211. “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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212. “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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213. “My brother reaches out and taps my forehead gently. “Behind that brain of yours is a good heart, Junebug. I see it every day.”

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214. “The world is made of countless threads that connect all things. These threads give the world both its color and its life.”

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215. “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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216. “But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.”

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217. “I think of Zero’s surprised voice, his anger as he faced me in the final game, the way he’d stolen my Memories. The way he’d returned them. Everyone has a price, he’d said. Name yours.”

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218. “Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone,” the man said with a shrug.”

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219. “I’m not going to tell you it’s never too late. But, in my experience, it’s always the not doing that I regret more.”

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220. “We are drawn to stories,” he says in a soft voice, “and every scar carries one.”

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221. “I’ve never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn’t a word that fits June... but here, now that she’s sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.”

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222. “Passion is bright and warm... But passion has a dark side too. It links with fear. Our hearts fill with terror at the thought of harm coming to our loved ones, don’t they?”

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223. “They think that you won’t hit back – that you’ll just lower your eyes and hide. And sometimes, to protect yourself, to make it go away, you do. 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. I hit with nothing but the language whispered between circuits and wire, the language that can bring people to their knees.”

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224. “So many poor and desperate, come to see me suffer in order to distract themselves from their own hungry lives.”

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225. “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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226. “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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227. “People ultimately don’t care about the journey, if the end is worth it.”

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228. “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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229. “But true rulers are not born. We are made.”

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230. “I am the nightmare.”

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231. “Metias is gone again. He is always gone.”

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232. “A week passes without contact, and then a month, and soon too much time has passed and calling her would just feel random and weird. So I don’t.”

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233. “I hereby pledge to serve the Dagger Society, to strike fear into the hearts of those who rule Kenettra, to take by death what belong to us, and to make the power of our Elites known to every man, woman, and child. Should I break my vow, let the dagger take from me what I took from the dagger.”

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234. “I don’t know why I pause to watch Raffaele. Perhaps I have always done so, so captivated am I by his beauty. Even now, in the midst of death and destruction, he moves with the grace of someone not of this world. His attention is focused entirely on Enzo. The sight breaks my heart, and a small, lost part of me sparks with light.”

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235. “Few people ever kill for the right reasons.”

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236. “When the world is murky, guide yourself with your own steady light.”

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237. “I’m not some invincible super-soldier – I’m a dying boy who’s about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country.”

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238. “I need to address my people, and I need to look the part. I will walk out onto the balcony with my head held high, fulfilling the fantasy I’d had as a little girl in my father’s home.”

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239. “Keep at it, Junebug – someday, you’ll shake the Republic to its very core. You’ll be absolutely unforgettable. I know it.”

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240. “No, thanks,” I reply. “I don’t like fried dough.”

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241. “My limbs turn numb for an instant, and suddenly all I see is Thomas lifting his gun and pointing it at my mother, Thomas beating me to a pulp in a Batalla Hall interrogation room. My vision swims in red.”

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242. “I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.”

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243. “Am I ever going to see you again?” Hideo asks him. In his voice is his lost self, the boy who grew up with a silver streak of grief in his hair. And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”

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244. “No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I’ve already hurt him.”

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245. “Once every ten years, the three moons all fall under the world’s shadow and turn scarlet, bleeding with the blood of our fallen warriors. – The New Atlas to the Moons, by Liu Xue You.”

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246. “Everyone else goes about their business without even realizing the subtle, significant shift in the NeuroLink that can now control their lives. And is anything different, really? Haven’t we all been plugged in for years now, completely addicted to this world beyond reality? Are we this willing to give up?”

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247. “Think badass thoughts, I tell myself.”

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248. “Why is love such a weakness? I wish, for an instant, that I didn’t need such a thing. I can win the same things in life with fear, with power. What is the point in searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?”

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249. “He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic’s most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.”

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250. “You once said that you were tired of the horror in the world,” I say. “Well, so am I. We can still find a way to fight it, the right way. We can find a way to do this together.”

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