Kiera Cass Quotes

Close your eyes, Maxon.What?Close your eyes.Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This girl? imagine that she depends on you. She needs you to cherish her and make her feel like the Selection didn't even happen. Like if you were dropped in your own out in the middle of the country to wander around door to door, she's still the one you would have found. She was always the one you would have picked. She needs you to provide for her and protect her. And if it came to a point where there was absolutely nothing to eat, and you couldn't even fall asleep at night because the sound of her stomach growling kept you awake—Stop it!Sorry.Is that really what it's like? Out there... does that happen? Are people hungry like that a lot?Maxon, I...Tell me the truth.Yes. That happens. I know of families where people give up their share for their children or siblings. I know of a boy who was whipped in the town square for stealing food. Sometimes you do crazy things when you are desperate.A boy? How old?Nine.Have you ever been like that? Starving?...How bad?Maxon, it will only upset you more.Probably, but I'm only starting to realize how much I don't know about my own country. Please.We've been pretty bad. Most time if it gets to where we have to choose, we keep the food and lose electricity. The worst was when it happened near Christmas one year. May didn't understand why we couldn't exchange gifts. As a general rule, there are never any leftovers at my house. Someone always wants more. I know the checks we've gotten over the last few weeks have really helped, and my family is really smart about money. I'm sure they have already tucked it away so it will stretch out for a long time. You've done so much for us, Maxon.Good God. When you said that you were only here for the food, you weren't kidding, were you?Really, Maxon, we've been doing pretty well lately. I—I'll see you at dinner.

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For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it.

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I felt a warm hand touch my forehead. And then my cheek. I held my act steady though Akinli’s touch made me feel more than awake.“Where in the world did you come from, you beautiful, silent girl?” he whispered.

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In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved

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He grinned back at me, and I remembered how normal he’d made me feel the first time we’d met. Here, once again, he wasn’t bothered by my silence. And I suddenly realized what made me feel so uncomfortable about Elizabeth’s exploits. The people she attracted were drawn to the same thing everyone else was: our glowing skin, dreamy eyes, and air of secrecy. But this boy? He seemed to see more than that. He saw me not just as a mysterious beauty, but as a girl he wanted to know.He didn’t stare at me. He spoke to me.

~ Kiera Cass

How can the truth make anything worse?

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Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I --- He held up his hands. It's no problem. And I didn't mean to be pushy. But i've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world bette because they only see the worst in it. There was still something about the tone of his voice and his features that made me feel like I knew him. I know what you mean. I shook my head. I don't want to be like that. But I get so angry. Sometimes I feel like I know too much, or that I've done things I can't make right, and it just hovers over me. And when I see things happen that shouldn't... You don't know what to do with yourself. Exactly. He nodded. Well, I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better. I laughed. That doesn't make sense.He stood. You just think about it a little.

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Akinli, this strange boy whose life at the moment seemed to be hanging on this, pushed himself from the bed.Julie gasped, watching as his arms trembled under his weight, even as thin as he was. He crushed his eyes together in concentration, willing himself up.I heard Ben whisper to himself, “Come on, come on, come on.”When Akinli, breathing as if he truly had just run a marathon, was fairly close to upright, he held out an arm for me.I fell into it fearlessly.We leaned into each other, neither of us strong enough to stay up on our own.“I thought I’d never see you sit up again,” Julie cried.We both turned to her, smiling at the happy tears on her face.

~ Kiera Cass

I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it

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I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

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No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

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If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

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You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

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Your Majesty—Tugging my ear. Whenever.

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I hit your thigh!”“Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

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I can’t help it. I sighed. One can never help being born into perfection.

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I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

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Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.

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Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?

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P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

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Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

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I guessed princesses-in-training didn’t wear pants.

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The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

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...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

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The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

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Castes never meant that much to me.

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I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger.

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The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'!

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I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have.

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I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.

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I worked, and I was excited about the next time the five of us had a joint class. When that time came, Silvia started by asking us what we were passionate about. I scribbled down my family, music, and then, as if the word demanded to be written, justice.

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Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak.

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I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.

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We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or you catch him just looking at something like... He's really looking for the beauty in it.

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[But] I have come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I wish it was something I could save and share with the world so I could tell the universe: this is what it's like, this is how it feels when you fall.

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I love your hair! Marlee gushed. I wish I'd been born with red hair. It makes you look so alive. I hear that people with red hair have bed tempers. Is that true?Despite my rotten day, Marlee's manner was so vivacious that my smile grew wider. I don't think so. I mean, I can have a bad temper at times, but my sister is a redhead, and she's as sweet as can be.

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How had I lost so much in such a short period of time? It would seem like leaving your family, living in some foreign place, and being separated from the person you love should be events that take years to roll into place, not just a day.

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It's hard to get a hug wrong.

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I wanted to be his dear, his darling.

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I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.

~ Kiera Cass