Marie Lu Quotes

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

Clouds suit my mood just fine.

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

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

The boy who walks in the light.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

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

Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

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.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

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.

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

You try to walk in the light.

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Everything I am familiar with is gone.

I don't like seeing her this delicate.

I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan.

I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!