Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Pain enhances beauty.”

— Marie Lu

252. “Zooming in on it only makes it blurrier.”

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253. “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.”

— Marie Lu

254. “That’s the thing about the Dark World: You can prepare for it all you want, but the only way to truly understand it is to head in.”

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255. “None of us are saints. We can all do better.”

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256. “It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love,” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.”

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257. “I needed the strange calm, the absence of everything, that it brought.”

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258. “There is something quiet and warm about this tiny, temporary bond between the girl and the dog. What must it feel like to harness joy and love, instead of fear and hate? What kind of light does that cast?”

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

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

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262. “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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263. “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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264. “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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265. “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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266. “How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?”

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267. “Ollie looks back at me with that universal dog wisdom.”

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268. “No. I’m not broken easily. I will never break.”

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

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270. “Don’t be afraid,” I whisper to myself, my eyes squeezed shut. “You can’t afford it.”

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271. “And just like that, I am linked to him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and history and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be.”

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272. “You have goodness in your heart, but your darkness overwhelms it all; your desire to hurt, destroy, and avenge is more powerful than your desire to love, help, and light the way.”

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273. “I’m not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.”

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274. “Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.”

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275. “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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276. “I don’t like seeing her this delicate.”

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277. “Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always.”

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278. “You are Day’s weakness, June. He’ll listen to you.”

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279. “I rub the weariness from my eyes and try to ignore my headache – I could use some rest.”

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280. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh before. It’s a soothing sound, both tender and unsure, reminiscent of someone who used to laugh more.”

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281. “As I run my sector, I can’t help but smile. I’m free again, I can taste the wind and touch the sky.”

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282. “I’ve had this dream too many times. I don’t want it taken away again.”

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283. “Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don’t. It’s always easier to destroy than to create.”

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

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285. “I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina,” he finally says. “You’ve handed me what feels like the world’s riches, a palace, a life of luxury.” He draws closer. “I get to be at your side. What more do I need?”

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286. “If you have to sell your soul in your quest to make things better,” I say through gritted teeth, “then you’ll never succeed.”

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287. “Make no mistake – we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.”

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288. “Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things – for love, for acceptance – that I do not really need. I need nothing except the submission that comes with fear. I do not know why it took me so long to learn this.”

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289. “Do you trust Anden?” I say after a moment. “Is he worth saving? Is the Republic worth saving?”

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290. “Don’t cry” He says, his voice firm. “You are stronger than that.”

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291. “Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.”

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292. “I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.”

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293. “I am composing my own music. It is mine, from my hand alone. I wrote it for myself and I wanted to share it with you. Do you see me?”

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294. “Then take it,” Violetta suddenly hisses. “And let it take you.”

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295. “He is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.”

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296. “Already, I’m starting to forget the face of the man I killed.”

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297. “You could say I am flawed. Marked. A malfetto. While my sister emerged from the fever unscathed, I now have only a scar where my left eye used to be. While my sister’s hair remained a glossy black, the strands of my hair and lashes turned a strange, ever-shifting silver, so that in the sunlight they look close to white, like a winter moon, and in the dark they change to a deep gray, shimmering silk spun from metal.”

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298. “Maybe she’ll fight better this way. Nothing motivates you like being alone and cornered on the streets.”

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299. “That’s the difference between the real and the virtual. Reality is where you can lose the ones you love. Reality is the place where you can feel the cracks in your heart.”

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300. “She was the flint lighting sparks in my darkness, illuminating a history that I can just barely see.”

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