Marie Lu Quotes

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.