“His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“It’s a strange thing to discover how much you matter to people you didn’t really know you mattered to.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“I’d decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“He'd said all the words I'd ever hoped to hear: queen, wife, adore. The dreams I'd stored in my heart were actually comint true.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“But shouldn't there be a least? Shouldn't there be a bare minimum that life should give you? Is it too much to ask for a job you don't hate, or for someone to truly have and hold? Is it too much to ask for one child? Even one some would call flawed? Couldn't I at least have that?”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“For as harsh as his words were, his voice seemed to caress my name”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“Because if it was a choice between him or me, I didn't think I'd be able not to put him first. He was the prince, and his life was invaluable to the country. But more than that, it was invaluable to me.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“I’m desperate for peace. I think you might be the only chance I have at that.” I smiled. “The center of your storm?” He exhaled, looking relieved. “Yes.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“It’s more than that. You’d take a bullet for him if you had to.” I didn’t answer. “You would! Oh, my goodness!” I stood. “I’m going to grab some of those dresses. I’ll be right back.” I tried not to be afraid of the thoughts in my head. Because if it was a choice between him or me, I didn’t think I’d be able not to put him first. He was the prince, and his life was invaluable to the country. But more than that, it was invaluable to me. I shrugged the thought away. Besides, it wasn’t as if it would ever happen.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about and now...now I knew them.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“My body didn’t care for me, so what did I care for it?”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“he gave me a wink and a crooked smile, and I was left there, grinning like an idiot.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“It’s a strange thing to discover how much you matter to people you didn’t really know you mattered to. Or to find that the slow disintegration of yourself causes a smaller version to happen in other people.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“His world looked like a storm.
I was going tp be its center.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“His world looked like a storm.
I was going to be its center.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“Not love, maybe not even affection, but something a degree or two beyond basic concern.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about, and now . . . now I knew them. When”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Queen
“Mrs. Plutarski is such a pill to me. You’d think I
routinely crapped on the altar, the way she treats me.”
― Kristan Higgins, quote from Catch of the Day
“I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, or a smile, or a silent serenity on the lip. I may have been happy, but it is not in my conscious memory now. Nor do I feel a longing for it, as though I had never had it; my spirit seeks different food from happiness, for I think I have a suspicion of what it is. I have suffered wretchedness, but not because of the absence of happiness, and without praying for happiness. I pray for peace -- for motionlessness -- for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation. I feel that there can be no perfect peace in individualness. Therefore, I hope one day to feel myself drank up into the pervading spirit animating all things. I feel I am an exile here. I still go straying.”
― Herman Melville, quote from Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
“Every love's the love before
In a duller dress.”
― Dorothy Parker, quote from The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library)
“You can never replace someone you love like that. Eventually the memories won’t be so hard on you. With time, the memories will make you smile and you will be grateful for having them.”
― N.M. Facile, quote from Across The Hall
“Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.”
― Shayla Black, quote from Wicked Ties
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