Bravery hides in amazing places.

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

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen.

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.

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?

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

To be clear, I don’t care.

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

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

I had been so mad at him when I left, I’d given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar.He smiled. “They’re at home, waiting.””For what?”His eyes glittered....

I’m happy, Ahren. I’m a princess. I have everything.””I think you’re mistaking comfort for joy.

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

So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions…

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

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

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...

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers.

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

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

Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

I sense that you won’t let the world push you into a life you don’t want. Maybe I’m wrong so let me at least say this: Fight, America. You might not want to fight for...

I’ve tried to make choices. You don’t really trust me to.

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

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

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.

I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.

I 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...

I 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.

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

So, buddy…

It’s amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

Wanting to cry doesn’t mean you can.

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.

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

I 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....

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

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

Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?

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...

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

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

It was over, and I knew that. But you don’t love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight…

We know you’re strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.

[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...

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.

Sometimes I feel like we’re a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

Your Majesty—Tugging my ear. Whenever.

Of course.

When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don’t think it’s fair that when I act similarly, I’m seen as cruel. I’m making a huge decision, and I’m trying to be wise about...