Quotes by Marie Lu

So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

Said the man to the sun, How I wish you could shine your light on every day of my life!Said the sun to the man, But only with the rain and the night could you recognize my light.---Domaccan poem, translated by Chevalle

He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Trusting me,” Teren murmurs, “is a dangerous game, mi Adelinetta.”“I’m doing more than that,” I reply. “For the rest of this journey, you will be my personal guard.”At that, Teren’s eyes flare with surprise and anger. “I’m not your lackey, Your Majesty.”“And I’m not Giulietta,” I fire back.

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

Its strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like were the same person born into two different worlds.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

Hes right. I cant deny it. I am the reason Day lost everything that matters to him.

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

He doesnt know who I am.

All theyre going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.

I can taste the good-bye on his lips.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a que

I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone, the man said with a shrug.

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.

I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.