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It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

Marie Lu

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Marie Lu
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 11
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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 you that I would like to clear away.
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Everything I am familiar with is gone.
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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 up.
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Everyone has darkness inside them, however hidden.
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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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I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
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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, I reply. I chose this. Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. I love you.
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Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.
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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 you to be the version of yourself that they like.
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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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You try to walk in the light.
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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.
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Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.
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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 a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.
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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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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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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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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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There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.
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