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“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

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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 getting used to.”
― 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