Rebel (Legend, #4) QUOTES

2 " We can’t save the world...”

“But still we try anyway... One day at a time. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

4 " There are a million pieces of us scattered through my memory, moments tiny and insignificant to everyone else in the world except for me. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

6 " I've looked over my shoulder for a decade,' I whisper, 'wondering what it was that was missing in my life. Turns out, all this time, it was you. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

8 " Daniel reaches out and seizes both of my wrists in his hands. “Look at me,” he says, his eyes locking on to mine. They are fierce in the night, and in them I see the same brother who had once stood up to an entire nation. “It is not weakness to open your heart. It does not make you less of a man to ask for help. To turn to someone when you’re vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on. You don’t have to bear the weight of anything by yourself. Do you understand me? I know what it’s like to be forced to go it alone. I never want you to feel that way. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

10 " Because, sometimes, being patriotic means calling out the problems rotting away your country. I'm not saying we don't want to work with you. But we represent millions of voices you're not hearing right now. If you want to preserve the spirit of what made Antarctica a world leader to begin with, you should take a look at your blind spots. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

12 " It is not weakness to open your heart. It does not make you less of a man to to ask for help. To turn to someone when you’re vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on. You don’t have to bear the weight of anything by yourself. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

14 " That I love you,” I whisper. “That I’ve been in love with you for years, even when we were separated. Especially then. I’ve lived with you in my life, and I’ve lived without you. No matter what kind of fear I feel in the possibility of us being together, the fear of being away from you is something I don’t think I can bear.” I look down, shy to meet her gaze now. “I have nightmares of losing you again. All the time. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

16 " If you have to sell your soul in your quest to make things better,” I say through gritted teeth, “then you’ll never succeed. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

18 " I know what it’s like to live in a place where people have no choices. What happens in a world like that, when you’re unable to speak out against something you think is wrong? "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)

20 " It was my advantage on the streets too. When you aren’t accountable to anything, you can move pretty goddy fast. "

― Marie Lu , Rebel (Legend, #4)