Red City Quotes

“Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“Maybe happiness only exists in fragments. Maybe it is only the absence of grief.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“2 A.M. is my favorite because you can read in the dark and the entire world is quiet.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“You are my heart. If you die, I die.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“Everything can be more beautiful. And because it has the potential to be more beautiful later”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“But does more money ever become an ugly thing? When does it stop saving your life and start destroying it?”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“Perhaps they are doomed like this. Forever sorry for what they will do to each other. Forever bound to do it again.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“What is more awe-inspiring? That the universe is so enormous that the edge of it is incomprehensible? Or that we, these ants living on a miniscule speck in a corner of nothingness, were somehow able to figure that out?”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“The closer we come to the perfection that drives us, the more we chip away at our souls. And what happens when we arrive there? What then? You look down from the mountain and see the carnage you’ve wrought.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“His gaze is so different tonight. The hard exterior she is so used to, the cold glint and the intimidating sear, all of it has faded, and in its place is something that must resemble the boy he used to be. And Sam wonders if this is how it happens to all of them, that once upon a time, he had seen beauty in the world too, had trusted and smiled and been a child. He had kept his heart open until he couldn’t bear the wounds any longer, and then he had shut it, letting himself go still and cold.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“It is our regret over all the things we never achieved, all the dreams we never got to fulfill. It is the questions that haunt us in the late hours of the night. Who are you, and who are you becoming? What world have you entered into, and what world shall you leave behind? What will you do, so that you matter? What mark will you leave, so that your existence was not in vain?”
― Marie Lu, Red City

“Wounded hearts with something to prove are always the ones who change the world.”
― Marie Lu, Red City

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― Marie Lu, Red City