Ella Javelosa

“I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow, it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“But true rulers are not born. We are made.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites