Marie Lu Quotes

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• If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

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  Leadership, Powerful, Rebel

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.245, Penguin

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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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  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

  Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.139, Penguin

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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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  Thinking, Important, Care

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.136, Penguin

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• Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day

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  Mean, Live In The Moment, One Day At A Time

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

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  Hurt, Absence, It Hurts

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin

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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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  Return, Innocent, Young

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.

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  Being Yourself, Mean, Want

  Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.56, Penguin

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• The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

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  Memories, Left Hanging, Hanging On

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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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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  Inspiration, Fighting, Bravery

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.68, Penguin

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• Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

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  Emotion, Being Human, Humans

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.115, Penguin

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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. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

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  Eye, Heart, Boys

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• Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

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  Wounds And Scars, Time Heals, Time Heals All Wounds

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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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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  Clever, June, People

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• I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

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  Brother, Would Be, Compassionate

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2013

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• All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

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  Reality, Generations, Population

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• Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.

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  Darkness, Darkness Inside

  Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.66, Penguin

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• Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

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  Brave, Follow Through, Ready

  Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.181, Penguin

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• Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?

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  Laughter, Love You, Grief

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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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  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• Clouds suit my mood just fine.

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  Clouds, Suits, Mood

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

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  Mother, Humble, Thinking

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.78, Penguin

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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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  Running, Lying, Promise

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

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  June, People, Reason

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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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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  Cute, Morning, Hands

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• He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. 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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  Pain, Eye, Boys

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