Marie Lu - Champion: A Legend Novel (2013)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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