Prodigy By Marie Lu 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

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do. — Lauren Bacall

Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?" — Dave Barry

IMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999. — Steve Jobs

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

Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option. — Dov Davidoff

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

These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. — Christopher Columbus

Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you, — Eric Van Lustbader

He was appalled at the ease with which the truth so easily turned into something that was almost a lie, just by being positioned correctly. He — Terry Pratchett

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it. — Donna Karan

Cutangle nodded. He felt that the last couple of hours had somehow carried him along without him actually touching the sides, and for a moment he nursed the strangely consoling feeling that his life was totally beyond his control and whatever happened no one could blame him. Filling his boots with water while adrift on a flooded river at midnight with what he could only describe as a woman seemed about as logical as anything could be in the circumstances. — Terry Pratchett

Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand! — Robert E. Howard

Yes, said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative. — George Eliot

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

Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai's skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may field muskets by the tens of thousands! Aha!' you will ask, yes, 'But why us Aryans? Why not the Unipeds of Ur or the Mandrakes of Mauritius?' Because, Preacher, of all the world's races, our love - or rather our rapacity - for treasure, gold, spices & dominion, oh, most of all, sweet dominion, is the keenest, the hungriest, the most unscrupulous! This rapacity yes, powers our Progress; for ends infernal or divine I know not. Nor do you know, sir. Nor do I overly care. I feel only gratitude that my Maker cast me on the winning side. — David Mitchell

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

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

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

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. — Peter M. Senge