Marie Lu Quotes

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'

Sometimes you have chemistry with people that is undeniable, and it just works, and sometimes you have matches with someone you think you are going to have good chemistry with, and it just doesn't turn out that way.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?

I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

I don't know, think for that relationship in particular age doesn't really come into play.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

The woman in you is the worry in me.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark