Quotes from The Prince

“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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“Poem in October"

It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore
The morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall
Myself to set foot
That second
In the still sleeping town and set forth.

My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.

A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill's shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me.

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.

It turned away from the blithe country
And down the other air and the blue altered sky
Streamed again a wonder of summer
With apples
Pears and red currants
And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sun light
And the legends of the green chapels

And the twice told fields of infancy
That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine.
These were the woods the river and sea
Where a boy
In the listening
Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy
To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide.
And the mystery
Sang alive
Still in the water and singingbirds.

And there could I marvel my birthday
Away but the weather turned around. And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon
Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.
O may my heart's truth
Still be sung
On this high hill in a year's turning.”
― Dylan Thomas, quote from Collected Poems

“... No, I think I just wanted to laugh at them and tell them at the end: it wasn't really serious.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from Billiards at Half-Past Nine

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
― Guy Debord, quote from The Society of the Spectacle

“Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues.”
― Frank W. Abagnale, quote from Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

“Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers?"

The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. "Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he's Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew, Drew, but he doesn't like that very much."

"Why not?"

"He says it's a girls' name, and then Shaw calls him Drusilla.”
― Suzanne Enoch, quote from The Rake

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