Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?”

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

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

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

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

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256. “Pain enhances beauty.”

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

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258. “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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259. “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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260. “I needed the strange calm, the absence of everything, that it brought.”

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261. “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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262. “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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263. “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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264. “I rub the weariness from my eyes and try to ignore my headache – I could use some rest.”

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

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

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

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268. “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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269. “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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270. “I’ve had this dream too many times. I don’t want it taken away again.”

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

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “Make no mistake – we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.”

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

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

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278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “No. I’m not broken easily. I will never break.”

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “I don’t like seeing her this delicate.”

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285. “An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.”

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286. “Tearing something down isn’t the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is.”

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287. “The gods gave us powers, Adelina, because we are born to rule.”

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288. “As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo’s body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved.”

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

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290. “Word on the street is that those lenses will download a patch that converts them into algorithm lenses on the day of the Warcross closing ceremony. That’s happening in eight days. “Seven days of freedom left,” Asher finally says, voicing what we’re all thinking. “If you want to rob a bank, now’s your chance.” I glance at Tremaine. “Any luck digging up more info about the algorithm itself?”

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291. “I curse silently under my breath and start to turn away but then the soldier does something unexpected, something I’ve seen before.”

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292. “His eyes are two warnings, full of everything he wishes he could say out loud.”

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293. “One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?”

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294. “A figure appears between me and the oncoming Inquisitor, moving with deadly grace. It’s a boy, I think. Who is this? This boy is not an illusion – I can sense his reality, the solidity of his figure that the black sky and the locusts don’t have. He is clad in a whirlwind of hooded blue robes, and a metallic silver mask covers his entire face. He crouches in front of me, every line of his body tense, his focus entirely on the Inquisitor. A long dagger gleams in each of his gloved hands.”

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

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297. “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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298. “Sometimes, the only way to set things right is to do what is difficult.”

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299. “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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300. “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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