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...

I always wondered if they’d change you.

Castes never meant that much to me.

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment....

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...

December 27, 11:00 p.m.My Dear America,I’ve never written a love letter, so forgive me if I fail now. . . .The simple thing would be to say that I love you. But, in truth, it’s...

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...

Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

What’s it like to be in love?””It’s the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you,

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....

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

The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was...

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.

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...

I’m not so stupid as to believe that you’ve completely forgotten about your former boyfriend. I know you think there are others here more suited for me and this life, and I wouldn’t want you...