833 Quotes by Marie Lu

They believe that objects have souls. The more love you put into one, the more beautiful it becomes.

They were the best of friends as long as they did not know they were supposed to be enemies. The truth would do its damage soon enough.- Brothers in Fire, by Jedtare

None of it was your fault, the whispers in my head argue. You didn't kill him, after all -- it was not your blade that ended his life. So why are you the one cast out? You didn't have to return to the Daggers -- you didn't need to help them rescue Raffaele. And still they turned on you. Why does everyone forget your good intentions, Adelina?

But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back.

For a fleeting moment, I imagine that if I were queen, I could make the act of hurting malfettos a crime. I could execute this boy's pursuers with a single command.

Tell me, Emika, what that’s like?” Now he sounds fascinated. “He’s done terrible terrible things. And yet I can still sense your connection to him.”I realise with a start that it’s because Sasuke was never old enough to understand what love really means. Not even the early, innocent feelings he had for Jax could possibly compare to how love actually is. He’d lost his humanity before he was ever able to experience that. My anger wavers as my heart breaks for him.

Cruelty is to hand out unjust punishments. I will not be unjust.

The darkness bows to me, eager for my embrace. I close my eye, open my heart to the feeling, and soak in the delight of vengeance.

We were never meant to exist, Adelina," he says. "And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us." He meets my gaze. "No matter how it has wronged us.