Marie Lu, Prodigy Quotes

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.

The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.

Goodnight, June.

I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?

I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.

You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

I need to let him go.

Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.

I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.

I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons.

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

If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.

Metias is gone again. He is always gone.

It means, Day, that you're dying.

I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

I can taste the good-bye on his lips.

All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

He's right. I can't deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.