The Selection Series Collection (The Selection #1-4)

by Kiera Cass

“America, my dear, I do hope you find something in this cage worth fighting for. After all this, I can only imagine what it would be like to see you actually try.”

“If your life is as upside down as you say it is, then she has to be here somewhere. In my experience, true love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

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.”

How families are families, no matter their castes. How mothers all have their own worries to bear.

“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 I would be happy with you.”

if you don’t think you can love me at all, it would be kinder to tell me now. I’ll let you go on your way, and we can part as friends.”

“You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.”

Love is beautiful fear.

don’t know if I’m supposed to be holding on or letting go.”

“Opinions change. Don’t let that one moment bring you down too much.”

Mistakes mean it’s real.”

“When has anything in either of our lives ever been fair?”

We were friends who realized they didn’t want to be without each other.

Live your life. Be as happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

“I’m not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can tell you that sometimes the very thing you’ve been hoping for will walk through the door, determined to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough.”

Don’t make it seem like less than it is.

There are some things you don’t learn about yourself until you let someone

else into the most intimate places of your heart.”

“I’m not sure anyone knows what they’re looking for until

they find it.”

You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers. Most important, you can be queen and still be a bride.