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“The older we were, the less magnificent we seemed.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“He tells you to play, so you play. He tells you to curtsy, so you curtsy. He tells what you are meant to do and what you are meant not to do, so you do and you dono do. He tells you not to be angry, so you smile, you turn your eyes down, you are quiet and do exactly as he says in the hopes that this is what he wants, and then one night you realize that you have given him so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet. That you are nothing.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“Keep going. Don't give in. Light up this world.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“the small steps you take that are invisible to everyone else in the world. The steps that, nevertheless, matter the most.”
― Marie Lu, Rebel