Envii Johnson > Envii's Quotes

“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.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Your Majesty—
Tugging my ear. Whenever.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision.
“Yes, list that. And don’t forget to write that you can eat an entire meal in under five minutes,” he replied. I laughed. It was true; I did tend to inhale my food.
“Oh, the both of you! Why don’t you just write down that you’re an absolute heathen!” My mother went storming from the room.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Just that. Your family must be very different from mine."
"I’d say so." I laughed. "For one, no one wears their tiaras to breakfast."
Maxon smiled. "More of a dinner thing at the Singer house?”
“Of course.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“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.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I guessed princesses-in-training didn’t wear pants.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.

I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Just because something seems impossible doesn´t mean that you shouldn´t try.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“If he had been with me, everything would have been different.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Like most of my stories, it will end tragically.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother´s garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors, their petals drooping downward, dying just as their lives have begun.
They stayed past their time, and I´ve realized that I have too.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I want to pull Finny out of my mind like a splinter so that I can adore Jamie the way he deserves to be adored. And even more than that, because I am a selfish, bad creature, I want to feel that adoration. I want to be free of this guilt.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“And I know that winter is supposed to end, but things aren't always the way they are supposed to be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“It hurts for him to smile at me like that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I'm sorry for kissing you."
"Don't say that," I say. "Don't say you're sorry for that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“The wind shakes the leaves and I have a sudden urge to go outside. The gray world out there looks inviting, velvety and cool.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I cannot imagine not wanting to live. I cannot imagine not believing that it will be better someday. I cannot imagine that there is nothing left to see, that there is nothing to tie me to Earth. As long as I want to live, then I must be fine.”
― Laura Nowlin , If He Had Been With Me