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

“Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.”
― 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

“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