Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “That’s something you’ll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.”

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

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203. “There are a million pieces of us scattered through my memory, moments tiny and insignificant to everyone else in the world except for me.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “Without his father’s shadow in a way, he’s beautiful.”

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “So many poor and desperate, come to see me suffer in order to distract themselves from their own hungry lives.”

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “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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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. “He’s right. I can’t deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “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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221. “I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.”

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “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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225. “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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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. “But true rulers are not born. We are made.”

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228. “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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229. “I am the nightmare.”

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

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

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

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235. “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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236. “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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237. “No, thanks,” I reply. “I don’t like fried dough.”

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238. “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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239. “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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240. “What if that’s who I am? Be true to yourself, Violetta once told me when I was trying in vain to win Father over. But that’s something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”

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

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242. “His voice seems to linger in the air, though, words I haven’t heard from him in years... and somewhere, deep in my chest, stirs the presence of a girl buried long ago.”

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

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244. “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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245. “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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246. “Few people ever kill for the right reasons.”

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

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248. “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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249. “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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250. “What’s the point of keeping in touch with the girl you’re crazy about, when you’re dying?”

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