Addison

“I don't understand how you can live with an open heart. Everyone hurts you. Why don't you protect yourself better? Put up walls?
"What if the thing your heart needs most is right on the side of that wall? I know it's dangerous to expose yourself to everything the world wants to throw at it, to everyone who wants to take something for themselves. But I still leave it open, just in case something beautiful comes in.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Have you ever missed a person even while they're still next to you? Like you're waiting for their absence someday, so you try desperately to hang on to the moment, so much that you can barely exist in the present with them?”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Grief is love. It's the price we pay for the gift of someone meaningful in our lives.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“I told myself it was my fault. My fault, for opening my heart like that. And so after then, I closed it tight. It made me stronger, you know?"
"I know."
"Close your heart, and no one can tell you you're worthless.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno