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title: The Defiantly Optimistic Storytelling of Marie Lu
description: Do you have any defiantly optimistic stories to tell? Are you a defiant optimist?
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# [The Defiantly Optimistic Storytelling of Marie Lu](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/the-defiantly-optimistic-storytelling-of-marie-lu)

 Written by [Victor Perton](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/author/victor-perton) | May 8, 2023 8:29:36 PM

"The Defiantly Optimistic Storytelling of [Marie Lu](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#)"

[The headline captured my attention](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/5/2/marie-lu-author-optimistic-storytelling-artist-profile/).

Angelina X. Ng writes, "Marie Lu is a superstar in YA fiction.

"There always is a happy ending, the couple always ends up together. Yet this is part of what makes a Marie Lu novel so comforting — there’s a palpable belief in the goodness of human nature and the agency of a single person to effect change, no matter how dark their situation gets.

"The characters in her books choose to take control of their fates and change the narrative, and in a sense, Lu does so too. The choice to believe in happy endings is defiant in the face of the dystopian-like realities of the 2020s, and for Lu, it's a comforting one."

Do you have any defiantly optimistic stories to tell?

Are you a defiant optimist?

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