Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “June,” Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.”

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402. “Everyone has a different story.”

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403. “The older we were, the less magnificent we seemed.”

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404. “I keep a fair distance between Raffaele and myself as we walk. He seems to do the same, and we don’t look at each other as we make our way down the long steps of the Tamouran palace’s main gates, where horses are waiting for us. From there, we ride underneath a cloudy sky that threatens more rain.”

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405. “Everyone knows that to openly show any disrespect for Magiano means instant death at my hands.”

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406. “Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world.”

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407. “It was my advantage on the streets too. When you aren’t accountable to anything, you can move pretty goddy fast.”

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408. “Action without heart is meaningless.”

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409. “He laughed too often and fell in love too quickly and drank too freely.”

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410. “Everything about Enzo whispers of danger, of murder in the name of righteousness. I’m desperate to pull away. I ache for more. I tremble uncontrollably, caught in the middle.”

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411. “May there always be future dawns.”

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412. “I’m not the prized prodigy i was when we first met.”

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413. “I walk over to Teren, then bend down so that my gaze meets his. I watch the rain pour down his face. When was the first time I saw this face? When I was chained to the stake, of course, and he had come over to bend down before me. How poised he had been, then, with his handsome, chiseled face and his mad, pulsing eyes. I smile, realizing that we have switched places now.”

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414. “You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts. Relax your eyes. Take in the entire image at once.”

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415. “Do you remember one year when that player – Leeroy something – actually got drafted into the Stormchasers, even though he always just charged in and messed up his entire team’s play? My God, he was terrible.”

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416. “There must be something more inside of you, Adelina.” He picks out my ring finger, then runs one hand along it. My breaths quicken. “Tell me I’ve at least been given a malfetto daughter of some use.”

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417. “But conquering people is easy. You break past their defenses, seize their cities, burn their world to the ground. To annihilate us, though, is impossible. A seed will survive. I am not done. I will not forget.”

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418. “When you refuse to ask for help, it tells others that they also shouldn’t ask for help from you.”

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419. “Augustine’s lips tense into a line. “Oh, for the gods’ sakes, Little Jac,” he snaps. “We know Lucent wasn’t just your riding companion.” At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. “You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.”

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420. “I stare down at the dead body of a soldier clad in military black, a knife still protruding from his chest. Dark blood stains his shirt, his shoulder, his hands, the grooves of the knife hilt. His eyes are closed now. I kneel before him and smooth strands of his dark hair away from his face. It’s odd. I don’t take in any details of the scene. I still feel nothing but that deep numbness.”

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421. “We aren’t trusted here – not because of who we are, but where we come from.”

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422. “Metias kissed me on my forehead. “Forever and ever, kid, until you’re sick and tired of seeing me.”

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423. “Can you be kind and a killer? Can you be gentle and a weapon of war?”

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424. “If only the world were fair, Constantine replies. But no one wants that. They just want it to be fair for them.”

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425. “I have enough of my own dreams to haunt me.”

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426. “Because Jeran, young and kind and forever loyal, would rather return and give his life alongside Aramin than live knowing he had turned his back on the man he loves.”

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427. “He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”

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428. “They may try to take everything from you... But you can take from them too.”

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429. “Goodnight, June.”

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430. “I signed them Mozart.” I leaned forward. “Just Mozart?” “Yes. For both of us. We are both Mozart, are we not?”

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431. “I feel invincible, or invisible. One or the other, maybe both.”

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432. “Your friend’s been awake all night,” she tells me in Basean, touching my wrist and nodding at the display. She raises an eyebrow at me. “She came knocking on my door at some ungodly hour. I almost hit her with a pan before I realized she wasn’t a soldier or a thief. It’s as if I have two daughters.”

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433. “We believe that too much power in the hands of a single entity is always a dangerous thing.”

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434. “Her name is June. And even in the midst of my broken memories, I know this with complete clarity. Her name is June, and once upon a time, I’d given my entire heart to her.”

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435. “And yet, still.”

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436. “We’ve been through too much to turn into strangers.”

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437. “Love. I think of the ways it can trap us, make us do things that can destroy us. And how we do it anyways.”

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438. “You don’t have to break down every detail. You just need to see the overall pattern to catch the weakness in it.”

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439. “Are you really going to be so loyal to someone you don’t even have?”

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440. “Maybe the United States was only ever united for some. Maybe this place has always been a dystopia.”

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441. “Only the worthy are made immortal.”

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442. “He was beauty, inside and out.”

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443. “Sir, we have confirmation on the escaped prisoners. There were three.” He hesitates, then swallows. “Captain Thomas Bryant. Lieutenant Patrick Murrey. Commander Natasha Jameson.”

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444. “But Violetta does not wake. My eagerness wavers. In this overwhelming silence, I wait desperately for her to open her eyes. Moritas looks at me again. I can barely see her through the black, churning mist. Your time in the Underworld has not come, Adelina, she says. In giving up your power, I offer you your life back. She turns to Violetta.”

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445. “That’s her strength, no doubt. She heals. She’s comforting.”

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446. “It wasn’t until I saw her in the Republic a month ago, purely by accident, that fragments of her in my memories came rushing back to me. That I remembered June was the one who’d give me that paper clip ring.”

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447. “You are forever a piece of my story. I couldn’t turn my back on you without turning my back on myself. I had to try.”

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448. “After all, getting into a prison is never the hard part.”

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449. “The first rule of fooling someone is to mix a few lies in with many truths.”

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450. “Goodness is a garden that provides life to thousands of blooms. It does not rule. It gives.”

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