Victoria

“But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“You are not an abomination. You are not merely a malfetto. That is why they fear you. The gods gave us powers, Adelina, because we are born to rule.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“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