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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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Marie Lu
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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Much
Rebelling
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Leadership
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Politics
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He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.
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He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see.
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To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.
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Hi, he says. I'm Daniel. Hi, I reply. I'm June.
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You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.
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I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
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It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.
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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 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.
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Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.
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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 to be in either category.
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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 me around with it.
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No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.
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Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
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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 much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.
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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 about you a lot too, Eden replies in a rush, mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.
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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 else thinks.
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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, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine
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