03UndatedI want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
05UndatedHe must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
06UndatedI loved him.I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my name or the color of the sky or any fact written in a book.Could he feel it, too?Maxon broke the kiss and looked at me. "You're so pretty when you are a mess."I laughed nervously. "Thank you. For that and for the rain and for not giving up."He ran his fingers along my cheek and nose and chin. "You're worth it. I don't think that you get that. You're worth it to me.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
07UndatedIt's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you," she said simply. "You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it."I sighed softly. She was absolutely right.Love was beautiful fear.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
08UndatedWhat am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
09UndatedTry patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
10UndatedLive your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
11UndatedBeauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?Kiera Cass / quote ↗
12UndatedMaxon: “To be clear, no one agrees with you.”America: “To be clear, I don’t care.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
13UndatedWhen we met, you couldn't stop staring at my breasts."His face went pale, as if he seriously thought he was so subtle no one would notice. "Make sure you get an equally satisfactory look a my backside as you leave.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
14UndatedBooks were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
16UndatedYou think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
17UndatedEvery day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
18UndatedWhy does she even bother sleeping?” I heard Elizabeth ask quietly. “You’d think by now she’d stop trying. We don’t need it.”I paused, waiting to hear Miaka’s response. “She must have a really wonderful dream often enough to make the bad ones worth it.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
19UndatedYou know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy. I was just in a room with eight very unhappy woman and I have no idea why anyone would choose that.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
22UndatedI love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
23UndatedWell, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.Kiera Cass / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already sent her home because I was relying on some sort of spark I didn't feel? What if she's waiting to leave me at the first sign of adversity? What if I don't find anyone at all? What do I do then, America?Kiera Cass / quote ↗
