Quotes by Marie Lu

“You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.' I narrow my eyes. 'THAT doesn't say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone's about to be executed for a mistake YOU m...”

“Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.”

“I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.”

“Without emotion, what's the point of being human?”

“She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.”

“Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.”

“Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.”

“She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful.”

“All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.”

“I can taste the good-bye on his lips.”

“When Compasia took pity on me, she reached down into the Underworld, touched the shoulder of Moritas, and asked her forgiveness. Then Compasia took my sister in her arms and placed her in the sky, ...”

“What's the point of keeping in touch with the girl you're crazy about, when you're dying?”

“There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”

“I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and...”

“Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug.”

“They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again.”

“I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.”

“The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?”

“My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.”

“Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.”