833 Quotes by Marie Lu

It feels like it’s the end of the world if you don’t do well on your SATs.

What’s right is relative, isn’t it?

They think that you won’t hit back – that you’ll just lower your eyes and hide. And sometimes, to protect yourself, to make it go away, you do. 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. I hit with nothing but the language whispered between circuits and wire, the language that can bring people to their knees.

Tearing something down isn’t the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is.

Why is love such a weakness? I wish, for an instant, that I didn’t need such a thing. I can win the same things in life with fear, with power. What is the point in searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

I’m not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.

I am not cruel,” she says again. “But remember this, Master Santoro. I only ask for obedience. If that is too hard, I can help. It is easier to obey without a tongue, and easier to kneel without legs.” Teren.

Because sometimes, broken pieces find a way to make a new whole.

And then, as if he understands me better than anyone in the world, he whispers, “It will make this night a little less dark.