Marie Lu - Legend (2011)

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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