Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I curse silently under my breath and start to turn away but then the soldier does something unexpected, something I’ve seen before.”

— Marie Lu

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

— Marie Lu

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

— Marie Lu

304. “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.”

— Marie Lu

305. “And just like that, I feel my power rush back over me in a flood of darkness, filling the empty crevices of my heart and mind with its familiar, poisonous comfort.”

— Marie Lu

306. “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?”

— Marie Lu

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

— Marie Lu

308. “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.”

— Marie Lu

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

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310. “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.”

— Marie Lu

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

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312. “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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313. “What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?”

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314. “That’s why I have to focus, I remind myself. And I can’t do that if I stare into Day’s eyes.”

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315. “She’s pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty’s not the right word. Beautiful.”

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316. “She’s pretty in a way that distracts me.”

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317. “In my fury, I killed him.”

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318. “Even after all this time, I hope.”

— Marie Lu

319. “What does straddling mean?” – Page 873.”

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320. “He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I’ve seen so far on these streets.”

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321. “Why can’t I be like that? Why can’t I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can’t I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can’t I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can’t I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?”

— Marie Lu

322. “I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.”

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323. “Only for Metias do I wear this unnecessarily exquisite gown, to show without words how much I love him.”

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324. “But her eyes burn in the light, and although it’s hit and might be my imagination, I think I see a small smile on the girl’s face.”

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325. “I stand in the darkness for a long time, letting myself sink into the memories we once shared.”

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326. “What do you have in mind?” I put my hands in my pockets and put my arrogant mask back on. “What I’ve always been good at.”

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327. “Something blackens your heart, something deep and bitter. It has festered inside you for years, nurtured and encouraged. I’ve never felt anything like it.”

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328. “The elector is young and ambitious, but he is not his father. He wants to fight for you, just as I fight for you, but first you need to give him that chance. And if you put your might behind him and lift him up, he will lift us up.”

— Marie Lu

329. “Do great things and challenge the world.”

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330. “It means, Day, that you’re dying.”

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331. “I love you,” I whisper over and over again. “Don’t go,” I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.”

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332. “What’s right is relative, isn’t it?”

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333. “You led the soldiers right to my family’s door. You’re the reason they’re dead.”

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334. “Without her, I am less afraid of dying. Without her, the world is that much darker.”

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335. “Our words sound light and almost carefree, but we can both feel the strain behind them. The effort of trying to forget, to push down. The consequence of things neither of us can ever take back.”

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336. “But looking out, all he saw was an ocean of light, the shimmering heart of Gotham City spread out before him. He didn’t know everything his future held for him, not yet, but he knew that whatever it was, it would remain here. It looked like a place worth protecting. It looked like home.”

— Marie Lu

337. “The mind can make you believe whatever it wants you to believe.”

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338. “I certainly don’t understand all these strange new feelings inside me – am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?”

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339. “Maybe it’s the expression in her eyes, something at once coolly logical and fiercely defiant.”

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340. “That’s another thing to love about me. I steal.”

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341. “If Metias joined the Patriots, he’d be a Hacker too. If he were alive.”

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342. “My life became the lives of Day and June, and through them I saw my own fears, hopes and aspirations play out across their canvas. Now I’ve reached the point where our stories diverge. They are off to live beyond the confines of the trilogy; I am left waving to them from the sidelines. I don’t know where they’ll go but I think they’re going to be okay.”

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343. “The world shifts, tilts, sometimes collapses. But sometimes, it bends toward you, and everything feels right.”

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344. “I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands, admiring his dying, writhing body as I count out the minutes.”

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345. “I’ve looked over my shoulder for a decade,′ I whisper, ’wondering what it was that was missing in my life. Turns out, all this time, it was you.”

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346. “Sometimes the sun sets earlier, days don’t last forever you know.”

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347. “The fire in you burns as fiercely as it did when I first met you.”

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348. “In spite of everything I’d seen and all I knew about what was wrong with the NeuroLink-I’m sad without it. Hideo had created something that changed all of our lives, often for the better. It was a creation that had probably saved my life. And yet, here I am. Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don’t. It’s always easier to destroy than create.”

— Marie Lu

349. “And I’m not horrified. I look at it, indulging in the darkness around me, feeding me, strengthening me, and I realize that I’m happy I killed him. Truly happy.”

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350. “Don’t be afraid,” he says with a half smile. “You’re with me.” His hand tightens around my wrist, tugging me down again playfully. And this time, I feel safe enough to take a deep breath of my own and do as he says.”

— Marie Lu