Favorite Quotes from Legend by Marie Lu

"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 to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine" - June

"I'm entering the patrol as a detective in training. My first tracking mission: Day."

"I would rather die than see them hurt you.

And I have a sudden fear that somehow, some way, what he said in that dream will come true."

"My hands start to shake. The boy is John."

"I never did ask you about your street name. Why 'Day'?"

"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 die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time."

"You try to walk in the light."

"In fact, he got the same score I did. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score."

"My brother had once promised to stay at my side forever. I look away from Thomas and towards the altar, so he doesn't see the tears in my eyes. I can't smile back. I don't think I'll ever smile again."

"That would be impossible. Metias can't be tortured. He is already dead."

"That's when something happens. I stumble into a Skiz fight."

"Kaede strikes like a bull, a battering ram.

This girl strikes like a viper."

"But I know Tess would've given me sad puppy eyes for the rest of the day. So I didn't."

"She's not cynical or jaded. The streets haven't broken her. They've made her stronger instead.

Like me."

"I have no sympathy for a criminal, I remind myself harshly. Just a score to settle."

"But… sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds."

What are your favorite quotes?

- Ashlyn, Aspiring Author of Today