Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I can see her intelligence in every question she asks me and every observation she makes. But st the same time, there’s an innocence that makes her completely different from most of the people I’ve met. She’s not cynical or jaded. The streets haven’t broken her. They’ve mad her stronger instead.”

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202. “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.”

— Marie Lu

203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “Just because the sun cannot be seen, that does not mean it isn’t there.”

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207. “That’s something you’ll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.”

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208. “Everything became amazing; then, everything turned awful. Life is always like that – you don’t know when you’ll suddenly claw your way out of your circumstances, or when you’ll go crashing back down into them.”

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.”

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213. “Don’t forget one weapon just because of another,” he says. A flicker of approval flashes in his eyes. “Or you’ll find yourself skewered in no time.” “Then maybe you should know which weapons are real,” I reply. The dagger I’m holding near his throat vanishes in a puff of smoke. The real dagger I’d taken from him is in my other hand, which I now press against his side.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “Without his father’s shadow in a way, he’s beautiful.”

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

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218. “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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219. “But you can’t give them everything they want – they will always want more than they have.”

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

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221. “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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222. “Hey – with your metal leg and half a brain, and my four leftover senses, we almost make a whole person.”

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223. “Embelish your flaws. They will turn into your assets. And if you become one of us, I will teach you to wield them like an assassin wields a knife.”

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

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225. “He’s right. I can’t deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.”

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

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228. “I exchange a long glance with June. She’s okay, she’s unharmed. And yet, I’m afraid that she’ll disappear if I’m careless enough to look away.”

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

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “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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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “No. I’m not broken easily. I will never break.”

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238. “What is worse – a world where Hideo fights against violence, or a world where Zero fights using it?”

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.”

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242. “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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243. “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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244. “But true rulers are not born. We are made.”

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245. “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.”

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246. “Raffaele reaches Enzo. Flames still burn on Enzo’s hands, but for some reason, he doesn’t move to attack. Instead, he waits as Raffaele reaches up to curl a hand around the back of his neck, then pulls him close so that their foreheads touch. Tears streak Raffaele’s face. Suddenly I remember how he had looked on the day he turned his back on me, the way he had closed his eyes when I begged him to let me stay. It is the same expression he wears now.”

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247. “I am the nightmare.”

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

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249. “Let’s play. You have no idea who you’re dealing with.”

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250. “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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