Marie Lu Prodigy Quotes & Sayings

My life became the lives of Day and June, and through them I saw my own fears, hopes and aspirations play out across their canvas. Now I've reached the point where our stories diverge. They are off to live beyond the confines of the trilogy; I am left waving to them from the sidelines. I don't know where they'll go but I think they're going to be okay. — Marie Lu

All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering. — Marie Lu

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin. — P. J. O'Rourke

Ryan said slowly, "Jamie, how much experience do you actually have?" If anything, Jamie looked even more uncomfortable. "I've been in the closet all my life." "How much?" Ryan pressed. "Until Paul, a few snogs and a handjob." It was Ryan's turn to stare. "Did you go all the way with him?" he asked at last, hoping Jamie would say no. He didn't trust that dickhead to treat Jamie right - Jamie who had practically been a virgin, Jesus. Who the hell was a virgin at twenty-two? "Yeah, — Alessandra Hazard

Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you. — Marie Lu

The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country? — Walter De La Mare

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TRIAL PRODIGY JUNE IPARIS BECOMES YOUNGEST STUDENT EVER ADMITTED TO DRAKE UNIVERSITY, TO BE OFFICIALLY INDUCTED NEXT WEEK. — Marie Lu

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

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men. — Henny Youngman

In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do. — Marie Lu

Them, together, in an orgasm-fest for the ages. What happened Friday morning could not be repeated. Not when she'd made up her mind — Zoe York

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

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well. — Neil Cavuto

She had on a spangled top that sparkled like fish scales. Her hair was very yellow. She looked like a mermaid in a bad mood.
(p. 82 RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE) — Kate DiCamillo

Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams. — Mary Stewart

the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon. — Bruno Schulz

An attractive man of the dark, messy hair variety came around a corner and stopped short. He stared intently at her, his dark blue eyes mesmerizing. "Can I help you?" He slid behind the desk and — Cleo Peitsche

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake? — Justin Alcala

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work. — Jorie Graham

Day didn't fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score. — Marie Lu

His eyes are two warnings, full of everything he wishes he could say out loud — Marie Lu

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing ... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. — Jimmy Carter