America Singer The Selection Quotes

#1. There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.

Jamie Bamber

#2. I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

Jami Attenberg

#3. It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.

Diane Ackerman

#4. And for you to be my wife is all I want in the world. I love you. I was afraid to admit it for a long time, but I know it now.

Kiera Cass

#5. When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

Richard House

#6. The Best people all have some sort of scar- America Singer, The One

Kiera Cass

#7. Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. When we allow Jesus to search our hearts and bring His perspective into our pain, redemption comes. Whether it is the pain from our yesterdays or hurts from our todays, when we give Jesus time to pour His truth into our wounds, His love flows

Renee Swope

#9. It's hard to get a hug wrong.

Kiera Cass

#10. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#11. Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Virgil

#12. Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

Elton Gallegly

#13. Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Anthony Of Padua

#14. Now of old the name of that forest was Greenwood the Great, and its wide halls and aisles were the haunt of many beasts and of birds of bright song; and there was the realm of King Thranduil under the oak and the beech.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

Don Young

#16. Oh, yes. She's still here," Maxon said, not letting his eyes wander from Gavril's face. "And I plan on keeping her here for quite a while.

Kiera Cass

#17. He gave a dark chuckle. "But you're not, so you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?"
"I hit your thigh!"
"Oh, please. A man doesn't need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh," he replied, his voice full of skepticism.

Kiera Cass

#18. I always wondered if they'd change you.

Kiera Cass

#19. If this were a simple 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. -Prince Maxon, The Selection

Kiera Cass

#20. Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.

Kiera Cass

#21. 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

#22. Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Thomas Merton

#23. Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.

Kiera Cass

#24. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.

Robin Jarvis

#25. Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights: some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have been yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black.

Charles Dickens

#26. Thank you," he whispered. "At least I can know for certain that, for one brief moment of our time together, you and I felt the same thing.

Kiera Cass