Marie Lu Quotes

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Marie Lu, born in 1984, is a prominent young author known for her novels that blend elements of science fiction with themes of youth growth. Her works have gained widespread popularity among readers.

Famous Marie Lu Quotes

“Still, he let himself feel her absence. He let himself feel the absence of his brother. And he let himself feel that familiar suffocation, the feeling of wanting to talk to someone, to let out some of the emotions bottling up in his chest.”

Emotion Lonely Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Have you ever missed a person even while they're still next to you? Like you're waiting for their absence someday, so you try desperately to hang on to the moment, so much that you can barely exist in the present with them?”

Romance Lonely Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Music is the sound of God, Nannerl. If given the talent, it means God has chosen you as an ambassador for His voice. Your music will be as if God has given you eternal life.”

Music Fantasy Musician Young Adult Historical Fiction Mozart

Book:The Kingdom of Back

Source: The Kingdom of Back

“No, it wasn't the attention he needed. He just wanted to create something and know that it mattered to someone, that he mattered. That maybe someone, someone was listening to his works, nodding along to the words, feeling something real.”

Love Song Attention Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Author:Marie Lu

“I don't understand how you can live with an open heart. Everyone hurts you. Why don't you protect yourself better? Put up walls? "What if the thing your heart needs most is right on the side of that wall? I know it's dangerous to expose yourself to everything the world wants to throw at it, to everyone who wants to take something for themselves. But I still leave it open, just in case something beautiful comes in.”

Romance Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Loyalty to a secret.”

Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance Secret Agent

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“I didn't know about you. I just knew that about me. And I guess I felt like knowing you made me face those thoughts. You are my meditation, you know?”

Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“I told myself it was my fault. My fault, for opening my heart like that. And so after then, I closed it tight. It made me stronger, you know?" "I know." "Close your heart, and no one can tell you you're worthless.”

Romance Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Let me stay." "Keep me in your songs.”

Romance Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Then maybe, instead of needing to see her, you need to figure out why it is that she matters to you. Maybe you need to see what it is that she brings out of you, to make you so whole.”

Romance Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“Maybe love was not knowing and going ahead anyway.”

Romance Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

“When she was in his life, he'd felt like, finally someone understood the most misunderstood parts of him, without him ever saying any of it aloud. Someone had been with him and seen him for who he truly was.”

Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Author:Marie Lu

“A little like the sun and the moon, aren't we? Never in the sky at the same time. But sometimes the sun and the moon were visible together. Sometimes they were.”

Romance Sun Moon Young Adult Ya Young Adult Romance

Book:Icon and Inferno

Source: Icon and Inferno

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

Young Adult Dystopian Poetic Lines

Book:Prodigy

Source: Prodigy

About the Author

Born: 1984
Known for: Author
Quotes: 347

Books & Sources

The Midnight StarRelated source material

The Young ElitesRelated source material

ChampionRelated source material

LegendRelated source material

ProdigyRelated source material

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