833 Quotes by Marie Lu

I needed the strange calm, the absence of everything, that it brought.

There are four places where the spirits still wander,” he replies, quoting some ancient tome. “The snow-covered Dark of Night, the forgotten paradise of Sobri Elan, the Glass Pillars of Dumon, and the human mind, that eternally mysterious realm where ghosts shall forever walk.

She was the flint lighting sparks in my darkness, illuminating a history that I can just barely see.

Maybe it’s the expression in her eyes, something at once coolly logical and fiercely defiant.

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.

But sometimes, you find yourself standing in exactly the right position, wielding exactly the right weapon to hit back. So I hit. I hit fast and hard and furious... And in spite of everything, I’d do it all over again.

What does straddling mean?” – Page 873.

Hey – with your metal leg and half a brain, and my four leftover senses, we almost make a whole person.

There’s a conflicted look in Day’s eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.