833 Quotes by Marie Lu

You could say I am flawed. Marked. A malfetto. While my sister emerged from the fever unscathed, I now have only a scar where my left eye used to be. While my sister’s hair remained a glossy black, the strands of my hair and lashes turned a strange, ever-shifting silver, so that in the sunlight they look close to white, like a winter moon, and in the dark they change to a deep gray, shimmering silk spun from metal.

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.

When you’re all alone in a world that hates and fears you, you want to find others like yourself. New friends. Elite friends.

I think of Zero’s surprised voice, his anger as he faced me in the final game, the way he’d stolen my Memories. The way he’d returned them. Everyone has a price, he’d said. Name yours.

Everything about me is stripped of color, just as Metias has been stripped from my life.

The darkness was his ally, not his enemy.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh before. It’s a soothing sound, both tender and unsure, reminiscent of someone who used to laugh more.

Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don’t. It’s always easier to destroy than to create.

I will do everything in my power to destroy all who stand in my way.