Marie Lu Quotes

I shake my head. “I know,” I reply. “You are searching for her too.”We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn’t look at me. I remind him too much of her.“I’m sorry,” I whisper, after a long pause.“Don’t be.” A small, sad smile touches his lips. “She chose it.
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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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Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places.
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It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love,” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.
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I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry
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As you can see, I keep my word,” I call to the rest of the crowd. “Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.
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The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.
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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 will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.
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I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.
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Someone's going to be very pleased to see you.""I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think.""I wasn't talking about the Elector."My heart jumps at that.
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June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces.
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Stay safe. I want to see you again when all this is done.
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I'd forgotten that a boy from the streets is no match for the future Princeps.
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I need to let him go.
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You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.
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I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.
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I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
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Goodnight, June.
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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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My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might've succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might've built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered.
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June," Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.
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I find myself pausing to admire her face.For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings.
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He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets.
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The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
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Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart.
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It’s you,” he whispers. There is wonder in his voice. “Is it?” I whisper back, my voice trembling with all the emotions I’ve kept hidden for so long
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A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.
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You still belong on the other side of the looking glass. Someday, when you're ready to take the step over to our side, I'll come see you again. Live well, Daniel. Make that final step count.
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I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.
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Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.
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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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What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
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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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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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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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You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have 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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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 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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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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Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.
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The boy who walks in the light
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I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.
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Hi, I'm Day.Hi, I'm June
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A free state is a corporate state.
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I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina,” he finally says. “You’ve handed me what feels like the world’s riches, a palace, a life of luxury.” He draws closer. “I get to be at your side. What more do I need?
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I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.
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I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele’s expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. “They may have a hard time finding me,” I reply.Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. “Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty,” he says.
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What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?
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What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?
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I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.
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Logic will save you when nothing else will.
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Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?
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But you can’t give them everything they want—they will always want more than they have.
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If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive.
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Metias is gone again. He is always gone.
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Let go of me,” I choke out, clawing blindly at Teren. The sharp tang of blood suddenly fills my nostrils, and I realize that it is from his wrists, spreading a film of scarlet around us. Somewhere ahead, the silhouette of our ship looms. We are getting closer.“I wish I could,” Teren spits, dripping venom. “There’s nothing I’d like to see more than you in the Underworld, Adelina.”His words spark my fury. He never intended to finish this journey with you. Teren grips my arm again so hard that I scream in pain. He is pulling us both toward the ship, his face set in grim determination.Then I hear him shout, “But I won’t.”But I won’t. My fury wavers, turning into bewilderment.
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I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he’s done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us.“Maybe next time,” he says to me with that smile, “you won’t be so lucky.
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It means, Day, that you're dying.
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I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.
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