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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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Marie Lu
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!
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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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I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.
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For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.
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June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
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I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.
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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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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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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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Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?
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You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, Hi, I'm Daniel.
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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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I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.
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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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If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
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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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Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?-Tess (pg 59)
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It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.
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