833 Quotes by Marie Lu

Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future. I had a hundred thousand of these lines, and in one day they were severed, leaving me with nothing but a stack of his medical bills and gambling debt. Death didn’t even give me somewhere to direct my anger. All I could do was search the sky.

Pain enhances beauty. – Adelina Amouteru.

I lean forward into this looking-glass version of our very first meeting. My steady gaze meets his. “So, I have a job offer for you,” I say to him. “Would you like to hear more?

No, thanks,” I reply. “I don’t like fried dough.

My limbs turn numb for an instant, and suddenly all I see is Thomas lifting his gun and pointing it at my mother, Thomas beating me to a pulp in a Batalla Hall interrogation room. My vision swims in red.

I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me.

When the world is murky, guide yourself with your own steady light.

Sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.

Passion is bright and warm... But passion has a dark side too. It links with fear. Our hearts fill with terror at the thought of harm coming to our loved ones, don’t they?