Top 450 Marie Lu Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “You have taken advantage of my silence in every way, robbed me of my dignity and my pride. You have used me for your own gain. Now, in your hour of greatest need, you will use me again. And yet, I will still risk my life to save yours. I swore and oath to this country on the day I donned this coat, to protect you and every other citizen from harm so long as there is breath in my body.”

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402. “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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403. “Music is the sound of God, Nannerl. If given the talent, it means God has chosen you as an ambassador for His voice. Your music will be as if God has given you eternal life.”

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404. “May there always be future dawns.”

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405. “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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406. “Because my mother taught me that, in spite of everything, I must choose goodness.”

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407. “Love is illogical, love has consequences.”

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

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409. “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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410. “She feels like everything that has gone missing in my life, joy and love and laughter and companionship, all flooding back into me at once. This is home. This is what I’ve been searching for. What I stayed alive for.”

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411. “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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412. “No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”

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413. “If nobody remembers you after you’re gone, it’s as if you never lived at all.”

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

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416. “Everyone has a different story.”

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

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

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

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422. “Only the worthy are made immortal.”

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

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424. “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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425. “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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426. “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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427. “I have enough of my own dreams to haunt me.”

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

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430. “In my next life, I’m going to be an accountant.”

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

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432. “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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433. “He was beauty, inside and out.”

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434. “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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435. “There is nothing to figure out, there is no how or why. Sometimes things just happen.”

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436. “And yet, still.”

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

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

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439. “Somehow I always feel better with her. It’s as if she can completely sympathize with my thoughts and help me channel them away, and I can always take comfort in her lovely face.”

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440. “Lost for a moment in an old memory.”

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441. “That I love you,” I whisper. “That I’ve been in love with you for years, even when we were separated. Especially then. I’ve lived with you in my life, and I’ve lived without you. No matter what kind of fear I feel in the possibility of us being together, the fear of being away from you is something I don’t think I can bear.” I look down, shy to meet her gaze now. “I have nightmares of losing you again. All the time.”

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442. “Day runs a hand through his hair, opens his mouth to say something, and closes it again. I can tell there’s another part of this whole scenario that he’s not telling me, but I don’t press it.”

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443. “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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444. “Be wary of what you wish for.”

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445. “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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446. “Look proud, she would say to me as she patted my cheek, until you feel it.”

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447. “Entertainment that won’t eat up my batteries is worth bringing.”

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448. “After that, I don’t know what the hell I’ll do. But I’m used to taking crises one step at a time.”

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449. “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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450. “We may always struggle with our pasts, but we can rest assured that we’ll always have someone else who can pull us forward.”

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