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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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I took an oath June. I am still bound by that oath. I will die with honor for sacrificing everything I have-everything-for my country.. And yet, Day is a legend, while I am to be executed." His voice finally breaks with all his anger and inner torment, the injustice he feels. "It makes no sense."
I stand up. Behind me, guards move toward the cell door. "You're wrong," I say sadly. "It makes perfect sense."
"Why?"
"Because Day chose to walk in the light." I turn my back on him for the last time. The door opens; the cell's bars make way for the hall, a new rotation of prison guards, freedom. "And so did Metias.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Without emotion, what’s the point of being human?”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I reach out to touch one of the walls, imagining that I can feel his life and warmth through it, and I look around again, up toward the rooftops and then all the way to the night sky where a few faint stars can be seen, and there I think I really can see him. I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I feel the pulse of our bond and history and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together.
'Hi,' he says. 'I'm Daniel.'
'Hi,' I reply. 'I'm June.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Even in the dark, I see hints of a smile creep onto her face.
“Yeah. You are a smooth talker."
I give her a wounded frown.“Sweetheart, would I ever lie to you?��
“Don’t try. I’d see right through it.�� I give her a low laugh. “Fair enough.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.

Now, he is free.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“She's the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“He doesn't know who I am.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I stand in the darkness for a long time, letting myself sink into the memories we once shared.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

No one compares to him. And right now, I want nothing else.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I exchange a long glance with June. She's okay, she's unharmed. And yet, I'm afraid that she'll disappear if I'm careless enough to look away.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Metias would be more merciful in my position.
But I was never as good a person as my brother.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I am June Iparis, I remind myself.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“I've heard a lot about you."
"I hear about you a lot too, mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I'd forgotten that a boy from the streets is no match for the future Princeps.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“My name is June Iparis.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“June's answer drifts up into the night air and echoes across the cityscape, one of millions of things happening in each of our lives, the small steps you take that are invisible to everyone else in the world. The steps that, nevertheless, matter the most.
Yes.
Always.
Forever.”
― Marie Lu, Rebel

“It wasn’t until I saw her in the Republic a month ago, purely by accident, that fragments of her in my memories came rushing back to me. That I remembered June was the one who’d give me that paper clip ring.”
― Marie Lu, Rebel

“Jetzt aber schließe ich die Erinnerung an ihn sorgfältig weg, lege sie an einen Ort, an dem ich Kraft daraus schöpfen kann. (June)”
― Marie Lu, Legend