Marie Lu

You try to walk in the light.

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“Walk in the light.”

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“You do what you need to do.”

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“Writing is my rebelion”

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“He loved you.”

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Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

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“Zooming in on it only makes it blurrier.”

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Clouds suit my mood just fine.

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

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The boy who walks in the light

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When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

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“Maybe his nightmare had been about me.”

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Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.

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Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

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Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!

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“When you refuse to ask for help, it tells others that they also shouldn't ask for help from you.”

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“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”

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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…

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If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

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“And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”

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Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)

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“I always thought of her as the sweet, naïve one. But perhaps she wore her sweetness and naïvety as a shield. Perhaps…

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We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them…

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Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want…

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Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible,…

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“All my wealth, power, territories, military might... none of it matters now. She has gone, and with her I shall go. —…

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“And they say she loathed everyone in the whole wide world, except for the boy from the bell tower. —Lady of Dark…

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“Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone…

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'The Rose Society' was definitely the hardest book I've ever written, because it's so difficult to stay in that dark space.

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“Ugh,” I snort in disgust. No doubt that girl’s some goddy rich trot living the sweet life farther inland, in one of…

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I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley…

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Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am…

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I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as…

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You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg…

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“It's strange," I say to Day later, as we both curl up on the floor. Outside, the hurricane rages on. In a…

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You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry.…

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“Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. “I loved him, June,” he says after a moment. “I really did.…

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When I was young, I couldn't process emotions well.

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“Through a blurry veil of tears,”

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“We are the children of gods and angels.”

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