Quotes from Marie Lu

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

I used to work in the video game industry before I became a full-time writer.

I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

I went into writing 'The Young Elites' with a great deal of fear - I'd been told repeatedly that a villain's story would be far too dark for young readers to want and that no one would like my villainess, Adelina. I braced myself for epic failure.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don't last forever, you know. But I'll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.