It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.Collection: Stupid
Love is beautiful fearCollection: Beautiful
Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.Collection: Hate
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.Collection: Letting Go
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Forever
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.Collection: Love
You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good.Collection: World
Bravery hides in amazing places.Collection: Courage
Accepting help is its own kind of strength.Collection: Helping
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.Collection: Photography
The best people all have some kind of scar.Collection: People
Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.Collection: Guilt
Leave it to you to find beauty in something others would say ruins a day.Collection: Ruins
Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.Collection: Heart
It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.Collection: Love
If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now. I know how I feel about you. Maybe it's impulsive of me to think I could be so sure, but I'm certain I would be happy with you.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.Collection: Taken
I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.Collection: Perfection
It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character; it just matters what you do with it.Collection: Character
He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?Collection: Names
No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.Collection: Selection
I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.Collection: Thinking
There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.Collection: Heart
If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw her. The clouds moved at just the right moment, fully lighting her face by the moon. She was dazzlingly beautiful. Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair. I felt a strange flutter in my chest, like the glow of a fireplace or the warmth of the afternoon. It stayed there for a moment, playing with my pulse.Collection: Beautiful
Castes never meant that much to me.Collection: Castes
All I knew was, even if she wasn't mine, I wanted to leave her with a smile.Collection: Wanted
What 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?Collection: Soulmate
That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.Collection: Princess
America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?Collection: Thinking
I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.Collection: Girl
He 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.Collection: Children
I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.Collection: Night
Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?Collection: Good Times
I wanted to be his dear, his darling.Collection: Darling
So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.Collection: Girl
I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?Collection: Laughing
I love you, America Singer. As long as I live, I'll love you." There was some deep emotion in his voice, and it caught me off guard. "I love you, Aspen. You'll always be my prince.Collection: Love You
Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.Collection: Cheating
Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.Collection: Needs
So he enjoys a girl who stands up to him," Dad said once we all calmed down. "I like him more already.Collection: Girl
She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.Collection: Running
Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.Collection: Dream
Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss. Something about the tentativeness of it made me feel beautiful. Without a word, I could understand how excited he was to have this moment, but then afraid at the same time. And deeper than any of that, I sensed that he adored me. So this is what it felt like to be a lady.Collection: Beautiful
You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... it's the only way to survive.Collection: Together
She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.Collection: Hair
And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!Collection: Beautiful
I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.Collection: Would Be
But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.Collection: Daughter