833 Quotes by Marie Lu

That’s something you’ll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.

I really miss him. I miss him so much. And I’m so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.

Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world.

Someday, when I am nothing but dust and wind, what tale will they tell about me? Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.

I’m so tired. I don’t know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I’ve already hurt him. “You’re the Elector. You don’t have to do anything. And if you care about the Republic, you won’t risk angering the one person who the public believes in.

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

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.

Pain enhances beauty.