Marie Lu Quotes

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No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

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

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You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.

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

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There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

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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.

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He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

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

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I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

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

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Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

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Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. Hi, he says. I'm Daniel. Hi, I reply. I'm June.

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We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes," I reply. "I chose this." Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. "I love you.

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

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June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.

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Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute." "You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks. "I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea, though-by all means, come and get me.

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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.

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

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To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

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It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn't know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn't have. That's why I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you shouldn't have to be everything to me. I had you, but I'd forgotten that I had myself too.

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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.

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So, tell me, he whispers. How fast did you climb those fourteen stories? Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm's past. Metias loves me again. Six minutes, I whisper back to my brother. And forty-four seconds. How do you like that? That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you're supposed to do it.

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You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face, to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky, her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.

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You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

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To. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

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