Marie Lu
Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.Collection: Inspiration
You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, "Hi, I'm Daniel.Collection: Cute
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.Collection: People
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.Collection: World
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.Collection: Beautiful
Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.Collection: Gun
I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.Collection: Running
I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.Collection: Distance
So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. 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.Collection: Sorry
He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.Collection: Love You
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.Collection: Ocean
Please don't take him away from this world. Please don't let him die here in my arms, not after everything we've been through together, not after You've taken so many others. Please, I beg You, let him live. I am willing to sacrifice anything to make this happen- I'm willing to do anything You ask. Maybe you'll laugh at me for such a naive promise, but I mean it in earnest, and I don't care if it makes no sense or seems impossible. Let him live. Please. I can't bear this a second time. Tell me there is still good in this world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.Collection: Taken
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.Collection: Beautiful
Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.Collection: Years
Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.Collection: Love
Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.Collection: Knives
What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.Collection: Girl
I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.Collection: Brother
Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.Collection: June
I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!Collection: Mother
You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.Collection: Eye
When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.Collection: Thinking
You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.Collection: Beautiful
June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.Collection: Thinking
I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.Collection: Tired
I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.Collection: Thinking
When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.Collection: Brother
I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.Collection: Republic
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.Collection: Teenager
Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.Collection: Tired
So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.Collection: Brother
For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.Collection: Eye
Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.Collection: Distance
Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.Collection: Rain
Everything I am familiar with is gone.Collection: Gone
You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.Collection: Thank You
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.Collection: Heart
I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.Collection: Fog
I don't like seeing her this delicate.Collection: Delicate
I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.Collection: Love You
I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan.Collection: Faces
I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.Collection: Stars
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.Collection: Broken