“It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“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.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“You’re the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself.”
“Knowledge isn’t love,” I contradicted.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“All I knew was, even if she wasn't mine, I wanted to leave her with a smile.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Maxon, this is my gift to you. I promise I will make every effort to see these girls through your eyes. Not the eyes of a queen, or the eyes of your mother, but yours. Even if the girl you choose is of a very low caste, even if others think she has no value, I will always listen to your reasons for wanting her. And I will do my best to support your choice.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“And I know I’m about to play second fiddle to another woman, as I should. But my love for you will never change, Maxon.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“It’s old advice, but it’s good: be yourself.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“You’re an idiot, Maxon Schreave. Your parents have completely sabotaged you. You could have a thousand girls set before you, and it wouldn’t matter. You’re too stupid to see love when it stands right in front of you.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Every girl will come with pros and cons. Some people will choose to focus on the worst in some of your options and the best in others, and it will make no sense to you why they seem so narrow minded. But I’m here for you, whatever your choice.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“I've tried to make choices. You don't really trust me to.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“if you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Despite the knowledge that her affections were unattainable, I couldn't help but be drawn to try.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Eres un idiota, Maxon Schreave. Tus padres te sabotearon por completo. Podrías tener cientos de chicas delante de ti, y eso no importaría. Eres demasiado estúpido para reconocer el amor aun cuando se encuentra delante de ti.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Because I could do this. I could do it well. I had to. I had to prove, finally, that I could lead, make decisions.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“I wanted to make a good first impression with these girls—and a good second impression with one—and apparently I was convinced this all hung on picking out the right tie. I sighed. These girls were already turning me into a puddle of stupid.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“America, is it?” I joked as she approached. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“I could welcome someone else into my world, and it would be better than anything I'd ever had before because . . . because she would be mine.
And I would be hers. We would be there for each other. She would be what my mother was to my father: a source of comfort, the calm that grounded him. And I would be her guide, her protector.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Damn it. I had to let her stay.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“Oh, please don’t cry!” I begged in a hushed voice. “I never know what to do when women cry!”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“There was something about her.. Even the way she didn't like me drew me in, and I couldn't help but smile.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“And then there was America, her mouth stuffed with a strawberry tart, her eyes rolling like she was in heaven. I stifled a laugh, and suddenly I had a plan.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
“You're too stupid to see love when it stands right in front of you.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Prince
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“As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive—both aesthetically and commercially.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“It is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until we've understood this, and we're not even close. All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives. By the time we reach the end, each of us has taken in a staggering store, enough to exhaust any computer, much of it incomprehensible, and we generally manage to put out even more than we take in. Information is our source of energy; we are driven by it. It has become a tremendous enterprise, a kind of energy system on its own. All 3 billion of us are being connected by telephones, radios, television sets, airplanes, satellites, harangues on public-address systems, newspapers, magazines, leaflets dropped from great heights, words got in edgewise. We are becoming a grid, a circuitry around the earth.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“Familiarity reduces insecurity, so we feel more comfortable describing and combating the risks we think we understand: terrorists, immigrants, job loss or crime. But the true sources of insecurity in decades to come will be those that most of us cannot define: dramatic climate change and its social and environmental effects; imperial decline and its attendant 'small wars'; collective political impotence in the face of distant upheavals with disruptive local impact. These are the threats that chauvinist politicians will be best placed to exploit, precisely because they lead so readily to anger and humiliation.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land
“The ultimate good of the gospel is seeing and savoring the beauty and value of God. God’s wrath and our sin obstruct that vision and that pleasure. You can’t see and savor God as supremely satisfying while you are full of rebellion against Him and He is full of wrath against you. The removal of this wrath and this rebellion is what the gospel is for. The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory and the removal of every obstacle to our seeing it and savoring it as our highest treasure. “Behold Your God!” is the most gracious command and the best gift of the gospel. If we do not see Him and savor Him as our greatest fortune, we have not obeyed or believed the gospel.”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House
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