Marie Lu Quotes

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

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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.

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See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest." I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.

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You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution, and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

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

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You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, "Hi, I'm Daniel.

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

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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.

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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.

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Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.

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

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