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• When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

  Marie Lu

  Eden, Feels

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

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  End Of The World, Ends, Sat

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• [...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

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  Cheer, Home, June

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• When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Kids, Eye

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• I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

  Marie Lu

  Teenager, Writing, Years

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• For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Small Moments, Moments

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• Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

  Marie Lu

  Tired, Kids, Sick

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.35, Penguin

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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.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Past, Storm

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.74, Penguin

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• I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.

  Marie Lu

  Republic, Faces, Steps

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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.

  Marie Lu

  Thank You, Kindness, Dying

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• I don't like seeing her this delicate.

  Marie Lu

  Delicate, Seeing

  Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.367, Penguin

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• My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

  Marie Lu

  Heart, Blood, Stranger

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• Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.

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  Rain, Struggle, Kissing

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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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  Distance, Feet, Three

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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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.

  Marie Lu

  Fog, You Again, Clear

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

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• Everything I am familiar with is gone.

  Marie Lu

  Gone, Familiar

  Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.231, Penguin

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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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  Love You, Heart, Grieving

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• I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan.

  Marie Lu

  Faces, Force, Stellar

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

  Marie Lu

  Stars, Long, Levels

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

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  Broken, Gone, Scream

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.338, Penguin

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