Marie Lu - Love Quotes

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

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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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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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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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