Marie Lu, Legend
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"I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know."
"Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it."
"Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools."
"I find myself pausing to admire her face.For a brief moment, I'm lost to my surroundings."
"He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I've seen so far on these streets."
"If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system."
"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible."
"I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine."
"In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do."
"It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds."
"Logic will save you when nothing else will."
"But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her."
"I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me."
"Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape."
"She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful."
"A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain."
"Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet."
"At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair."
"I ALMOST KISSED THE GIRL LAST NIGHT."
"The boy who walks in the light"
"What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal."
"You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools."
"You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine."
"You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it."
"Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks."