Marie Lu

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

— Marie Lu

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my…

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Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process…

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

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My very first system was the Sega Genesis back when I was 7 or 8 years old. I played that into the…

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“Hideo wants me off the official games and the hunt. Zero has warned me to stay away. But I've never been good…

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“Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other’s hands. —Amaderan Poetry, various authors…

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“Do you remember one year when that player - Leeroy something - actually got drafted into the Stormchasers, even though he always…

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As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I…

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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can…

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“Poor Metias. He’s not supposed to be a father. He’s supposed to be out on his own, independent and free to concentrate…

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So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything…

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“Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap…

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“I'll tell you why it matters," she hisses. "It matters because if you hadn't escaped,my brother would be alive right now.And I…

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“But fairness does not power nations, Day, does it? I have read histories about nations where every person is given an equal…

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“I'm not a superstitious person, but when I wake up from this dream, this painfully clear memory of John, I have the…

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“And the book (#7) is for whenever the hunt involves a lot of waiting around. Entertainment that won't eat up my batteries…

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“Someday, someone out there will see you for the girl you really are. Someday, you’ll find someone who understands you.”

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I had a wonderful fan who once sent me an alpaca hat all the way from Peru, where he'd gone to volunteer…

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I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself…

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Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling…

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My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous…

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“Somehow I always feel better with her. It’s as if she can completely sympathize with my thoughts and help me channel them…

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There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense…

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I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape,…

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I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as…

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“That’s the thing about evil. You don’t need to be it to do it. It doesn’t have to consume all of you.…

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“The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to…

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Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so…

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I'm not much of an outliner in general. I tend to wing my way through all my drafts, which means writing a…

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to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place,…

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We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't…

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I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around…

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We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes,"…

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I'm a big fan of the trope of 'the poor boy meets the wealthy girl.' I like the idea of this boy…

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“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces. —Masquerade, by…

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June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear…

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Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have…

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“TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TRIAL PRODIGY JUNE IPARIS BECOMES YOUNGEST STUDENT EVER ADMITTED TO DRAKE UNIVERSITY, TO BE OFFICIALLY INDUCTED NEXT WEEK.”

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

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