Steelstriker Quotes

“That’s the thing about evil. You don’t need to be it to do it. It doesn’t have to consume all of you. It can be small. All you have to do is let it exist.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“She feels like everything that has gone missing in my life, joy and love and laughter and companionship, all flooding back into me at once. This is home. This is what I've been searching for. What I stayed alive for.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“You live life, certain it will always stay this way, until it doesn’t.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Goodness is a garden that provides life to thousands of blooms. It does not rule. It gives.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Love. I think of the ways it can trap us, make us do things that can destroy us. And how we do it anyways.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“That's the thing about inventing new things, you can only control the genesis of it, not the evolution. And I have evolved.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“The warmth of having Red nearby seems so real that I lean into it, letting myself believe that if I wanted to, I could youch his hand, touch his face, pull him to me, feel his whisper on my skin”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“After all, getting into a prison is never the hard part.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Action without heart is meaningless.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Goodness can be no single leader. No solitary person.
Goodness is friends who stick by you, even when they fear you’re lost. It’s mothers you fight for their daughters. It’s believing in something better—and taking action to make it reality. It’s love, untainted and pure.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Think of all that a single person can do. All the indescribable good. All the unspeakable evil.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Goodness can be no single leader. No solitary person. Goodness is friends who stick by you, even when they fear you're lost. It's mothers who fight for their daughters. It's believing in something better - and taking action to make it reality. It's love, untainted and pure. Goodness is a garden that provides life to thousands of blooms. It does not rule. It gives.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“If only the world were fair, Constantine replies. But no one wants that. They just want it to be fair for them.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Just because the sun cannot be seen, that does not mean it isn't there.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Constantine’s body stays there on the edge of the roof, alone and undefended, just an object to be gawked at and pointed to by the crowds below. All the destruction he has caused, all the lives he has destroyed–but in the end, he is just a lone, frail figure, another body. And in time, like all bodies, he too will vanish into dust.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“She knows that the war has left behind wounds in me that will never heal, but that it also brought me some of the greatest joys I've ever known. I've found the people who would stand shoulder to shoulder with me. We've made it, together, to the other side.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“The Federation can do everything in its power to destroy the bonds that tie family together, human decency, love. But it cannot break it. There is a level of power in this small, intimate moment that Constantine, with all his armies and his experiments, can never touch. Here, we are invincible.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“You are the reason I live, he tells me. And as long as I have this life, I will dedicate it to you. I will be at your side in any battle, whether out there at the place gates or here, in this grove, in your heart. You saved me. I owe everything to you, Talin, Remember that.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“The bird wakes early for the morning sun. It waits even on days of rain, knowing just because the sun cannot be seen, that does not mean it isn't there.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker

“Sometimes you're the happiest when you're most ignorant. Better not to know the truth and enjoy life as you know it. That you're not witnessing a horror.”
― Marie Lu, Steelstriker