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“Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”
― Cassandra Clare

“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

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

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

“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his
words.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“You try to walk in the light.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Logic will save you when nothing else will.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because 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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Please don't take him away from this world. Please don't let him die here in my arms, not after everything we've been through together, not after You've taken so many others. Please, I beg You, let him live. I am willing to sacrifice anything to make this happen- I'm willing to do anything You ask. Maybe you'll laugh at me for such a naive promise, but I mean it in earnest, and I don't care if it makes no sense or seems impossible. Let him live. Please. I can't bear this a second time.

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

“I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Without emotion, what’s the point of being human?”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.

Now, he is free.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.

It's a new feeling, something I'm still getting used to.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Any barrier I might've succeeded in putting up around myself, any resistance I might've built up against my feelings for her, is now completely gone. Shattered.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Someday, you’ll learn that life isn’t always what you want it to be. That you won’t always get what you want.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Even after all this time, I hope.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“there are forces out of your control that will shape you into who you are.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I love you. No matter what happens between us.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I’ve had this dream too many times. I don’t want it taken away again.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“That’s something you’ll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“So many memories, so much joy and sadness.”
― Marie Lu, Champion