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“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together.

“Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.”
“Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive."

I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."

A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“(A)ll it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“We are drawn to stories,” he says in a soft voice, “and every scar carries one.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“No. I'm not broken easily. I will never break.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Don't cry. You are stronger than that.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Everyone has a different way of escaping the dark stillness of their mind.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“But sometimes, people kick you to the ground at recess because they think the shape of your eyes is funny. They lunge at you because they see a vulnerable body. Or a different skin color. Or a different name. Or a girl. 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.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“None of us are saints. We can all do better.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]

“To watch with your own eyes your beloved be trampled and ridiculed, yet be unable to do anything. That's the worst suffering in the world.”
― 墨香铜臭, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“The one standing in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is ‘you’ and not the state of you.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other. This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other's embrace.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“If your dream is to save the common people, the, my dream is only you.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“You never know. I don't care if anyone else is disappointed. But to some, the very existence of a certain person in this world is in itself, hope.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“If you don't know how to live on anymore, then live for me.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“If you wanted to see me, it won't matter what you roll. I will appear”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

“If your dream is to save the common people, then, my dream is only you.”
― Mo Xiang Tong Xiu