Icon and Inferno Quotes

“I don’t love you,’ he murmured. ‘I don’t love you, too’ she whispered back.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“But perhaps there was beauty in not knowing. Maybe that was its own form of love, the faith of coming together even when you couldn’t see the path in front of you, when you had no idea whether joy or heartbreak would await you further down the road of life, when you had nothing but a guiding light in the distance to yearn for.”
― 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

“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

“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

“That's what I'm afraid of, Winter. I don't know how to follow you.'
'Then don't,' he replied.
She searched his gaze. 'What?"
He moved closer to her, until she could feel the warmth radiating from him. His body brushed against hers. 'I'll come to you.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Maybe love was not knowing and going ahead anyway.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Here's a promise I can give to you.
I promise that, when you need me, you can always find me.
If you find yourself feeling alone, I promise I'll come to you.
And someday, in some future, when I'm no longer wanted on a stage, and when you no longer want to be a secret agent...let's say that, if you aren't trying to find someone else. I promise I'm yours."
"It's a promise”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Then maybe, instead of needing to see her, you need to figure out why it is that she matters to you. Maybe you need to see what it is that she brings out of you, to make you so whole.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Sometimes you didn't have to let people back into your life, to absorb all the cruelty in the world. Sometimes you didn't have to open your heart. Sometimes it was okay to just let them go.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Let me stay."
"Keep me in your songs.”
― 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

“I didn't know about you. I just knew that about me. And I guess I felt like knowing you made me face those thoughts. You are my meditation, you know?”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Still, he let himself feel her absence. He let himself feel the absence of his brother. And he let himself feel that familiar suffocation, the feeling of wanting to talk to someone, to let out some of the emotions bottling up in his chest.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“Loyalty to a secret.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“How strange an emotion love was, how powerful it must be to fuel kindness and hatred and empathy and revenge and grief, all at once.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno

“What if protecting yourself kills you in the end?' he said. 'What if the thing your heart needs most is right on the other 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

“A little like the sun and the moon, aren't we? Never in the sky at the same time. But sometimes the sun and the moon were visible together. Sometimes they were.”
― Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno