Top 500 Marie Lu Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It was my advantage on the streets too. When you aren’t accountable to anything, you can move pretty goddy fast.”

— Marie Lu

402. “Action without heart is meaningless.”

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403. “Music is music. The source of it does not matter so much.”

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404. “June,” Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.”

— Marie Lu

405. “Everyone has a different story.”

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

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407. “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.”

— Marie Lu

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

— Marie Lu

409. “May there always be future dawns.”

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

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411. “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.”

— Marie Lu

412. “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.”

— Marie Lu

413. “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.”

— Marie Lu

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

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416. “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.”

— Marie Lu

417. “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.”

— Marie Lu

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

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

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

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422. “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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423. “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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424. “He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.”

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

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426. “Goodnight, June.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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444. “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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445. “Aren’t we all always searching for someone to understand us?”

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446. “Where will you go?” I ask. At that, Magiano puts his hand down and turns his eyes up to the sky. It is a habit now that my eyes instinctively turn skyward, too, to where the first stars have begun to appear. “I’m going to follow her, of course,” Magiano says. “As the night sky turns. When she appears on the other side of the world, I will be there, and when she returns here, so will I.”

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447. “Finally, when the sunset bathes my apartment in orange and gold, I break out of my trance. I clean up the shining shards of broken glass. I dress in my full uniform. I make sure my hair is pulled back flawlessly, that my face is clean and calm and devoid of emotion. In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside. I’m a prodigy who knows the truth, and I know exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to help Day escape.”

— Marie Lu

448. “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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449. “But I’m think that, even though there’s no one in my family willing to wait around for me, even though you’re the only one here, I couldn’t care less, because you might as well be the entire damn world.”

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

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