833 Quotes by Marie Lu

Lies are told more easily when you don’t see them as lies.

It was my advantage on the streets too. When you aren’t accountable to anything, you can move pretty goddy fast.

But her eyes burn in the light, and although it’s hit and might be my imagination, I think I see a small smile on the girl’s face.

The world grows smaller,′ she finally said. ‘And small worlds cultivate greed. It is a grievous sin... We are not all like them. I am sorry, child, for your loss, and I am sorry for them, for seeing such a small world.

Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things – for love, for acceptance – that I do not really need.

At least you understand me.” He raises an eyebrow again. “Sometimes.

I’m not some invincible super-soldier – I’m a dying boy who’s about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country.

We were never meant to exist, Adelina,” he says. “And we will never exist again. But we cannot take the entire world with us.” He meets my gaze. “No matter how it has wronged us.

There are a million pieces of us scattered through my memory, moments tiny and insignificant to everyone else in the world except for me.