Elm > Elm's Quotes

“Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always.

"I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”
― Marie Lu, Champion

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

“After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Clouds suit my mood just fine.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.

—Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“When I see Kaede nod her head in Tess's direction, I rise up from my crouch. This trot's going to choose Tess. Oh, hell no. Not while I'm watching. Not if Kaede wants to live.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Hey—with your metal leg and half a brain, and my four leftover senses, we almost make a whole person.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Enzo looks up at me. Suddenly, the blackness in his eyes seems to fade, replaced by the familiar warm brown of his irises, the red slashes, the glow of life. I see a hint of his old self there, fighting through the darkness of the Underworld to gaze at me one last time. It is the look he’d given me when we used to dance.
This is the real Enzo.
“Let me go,” he whispers. It is his voice. It is the voice that once comforted me, gave me strength. And as I try to take in his words, the final tendrils of the tether linking us unravel from around my heart, freeing me.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo’s body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“No, thanks," I reply. "I don't like fried dough.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy