Stars and Smoke Quotes

“He gave her a wry smile. “A little like the sun and moon, aren’t we?
Never in the sky at the same time.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“I really thought I had more time with you, he whispered, more to himself than anyone else. All I ever wanted was to be like you."

"Be like you, Winter.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“Then his leg dropped again and he stepped smoothly back into a walk.
There was sadness etched into the lines of his body tonight, something she occasionally recognized from his performances. It gave him that secret pull, an aching vulnerability hidden behind the wink and the sidelong smile.
As if he both desperately needed the spotlight and yet couldn’t bear the
attention. There was no one else here, and yet, even now, he looked like a star, like he couldn’t help but burn so bright that even the air was drawn to him, that the moon yearned to illuminate him.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“Sydney’s words from his training week echoed in his mind.
It’s a lonely job, but you won’t realize just how lonely it is until you start.
He could already feel it. And somehow, it was familiar.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“Under dark eyes rimmed with long black lashes, a mysterious grace in his movements, an expression that could somehow switch between shy and mischievous in the space of a second. But it was more than that. Many
people were objectively gorgeous, but then there were those few, the stars with some undefinable quality so searingly bright that they birthed obsession. Once the world got a glimpse of them, it would move heaven
and earth just to see them again”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“I'm sorry, she whispered. I don’t deserve to stay.
Sauda tilted her head. Deserve is an interesting word, she said. It implies worth. And worth is something earned by doing, not by being.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke

“Since then, they’d settled into friendship, the kind you could only have with someone who knew you like no one else.”
― Marie Lu, Stars and Smoke