Marie Lu Quotes

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.

Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.