Maxon's Quotes

#1. Don't worry. The best people all have some kind of scar. I thought of Marlee's hands and Maxon's back. They both held permanent marks of their bravery. I was honored to join them.

Kiera Cass

#2. I wanted to be his dear, his darling. I wanted to be Maxon's alone.

Kiera Cass

#3. These experiences were not lodged in Maxon's memory. They were not allowed to stay there.

Lydia Netzer

#4. Though I still occasionally questioned my desire to be the princess, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be Maxon's.

Kiera Cass

#5. Yeah, five. Most families out there have lots of kids. I'd have lots if I could." "Oh, really?" Maxon's eyebrows were raised.

Kiera Cass

#6. We swayed, barely moving. I settled my cheek on Maxon's chest, he rested his chin on my head, and we spun to the music of the rain.

Kiera Cass

#7. Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?

Kiera Cass

#8. The sun never shown
as bright as your lovely eyes
When you are happy

Ken Maxon

#9. He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same.

Kiera Cass

#10. America: You didn't have to do that.
Maxon: I know. But sometimes it's about what you want to do, not what you have to.

Kiera Cass

#11. The picture of me just after I'd found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.

Kiera Cass

#12. I can't help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

Kiera Cass

#13. Maxon smiled effortlessly. "America Singer," he announced, "my closest friend." "That's right." I rolled my eyes.

Kiera Cass

#14. Maybe Maxon did love me, but if he wasn't man enough to say it out loud,

Kiera Cass

#15. Your Majesty -
Tugging my ear. Whenever.

Kiera Cass

#16. I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.

Kiera Cass

#17. 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

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

Kiera Cass

#19. Once he was gone, I closed my eyes and pulled in everything from our short time together: the way he stared at me, the playful smiles, the sweet kisses. I thought about them over and over as I got ready for bed, wondering if Maxon was doing the same thing.

Kiera Cass

#20. Maxon, that's not going to happen," I whispered into his neck. "If anything, you're going to realize I'm not good enough."
His lips were at my ear. "Darling, you're perfect.

Kiera Cass

#21. Intrigued, Maxon propped himself up on one arm to listen. Tell me everything.

Kiera Cass

#22. A lot of things are yours, America

Kiera Cass

#23. No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me.

Kiera Cass

#24. 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

#25. I wanted to be his dear, his darling.

Kiera Cass

#26. Surely he loved me. Right? Why wouldn't he just say it? We're alone, Maxon. If you say it, I'll say it back.

Kiera Cass

#27. Sometimes it's what you want to do, not what you have to do.

Kiera Cass

#28. - 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

#29. I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.

Kiera Cass

#30. Because even though you're dating five other women, I think I'm cheating on you.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#32. He wasn't my boyfriend, he wasn't me husband, and he wasn't my friend. He was family.

Kiera Cass

#33. We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or you catch him just looking at something like ... He's really looking for the beauty in it.

Kiera Cass

#34. I couldn't help but
notice it was always this way. At state events or important dinners, Mom was beside Dad or situated
right behind him. But when they were just husband and wife - not king and queen - he followed her
everywhere.

Kiera Cass

#35. Should I get more butter?"
"Shut up, Eadlyn,

Kiera Cass

#36. And I know it's over, but it's the same way I felt when you broke up with me.

Kiera Cass

#37. America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful.
"Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

Kiera Cass

#38. If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I'm having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

Kiera Cass

#39. Would you like me to let you go home to your love today?" he asked. It was obvious that my preference for someone else bothered him, but instead of choosing to ve angry, he showed compassion.

Kiera Cass

#40. You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

Kiera Cass

#41. Maxon broke the kiss and looked at me. "You're so pretty when you're a mess.

Kiera Cass

#42. Anything you need, anything you want, say the words. I will do everything I can for you.

Kiera Cass

#43. But no one wants that anymore. People want a choice." Maxon shook his head. "You're terrifying to him, but he can't expel you. They adore you, America.
I swallowed. "Adore?"
He nodded. "And ... I feel similarly. So, no matter what he says or does, don't lose faith, this isn't over.

Kiera Cass

#44. Maxon has to pick you," Lucy cried. "You're the only one

Kiera Cass

#45. I know, I know. It's hard to explain. All I can say is that I've been given a second chance. Maxon matters to me, and I'm going to fight for him.

Kiera Cass

#46. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

Kiera Cass

#47. I don't think the lady should go. As if he's won the argument, Maxon looked at me with a face that said, See!

Kiera Cass

#48. I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.

Kiera Cass

#49. Maxon kissed the tip of my nose. "Let's go get dry and watch a movie." "Sounds good.

Kiera Cass

#50. 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

#51. Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.

James D. Maxon

#52. This was how I wanted to end our night, with hope. Well, and maybe one more thing. I bit my lip and leaned into Maxon, asking with my eyes. Without a second of hesitation, he bent to kiss me. It was warm and gentle, and it left me feeling adored and somehow aching for more.

Kiera Cass

#53. I was wondering If I was going to get a dance at all," I commented, trying to sound playful.

Maxon managed to pull me even closer. "I was saving this one. I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over. Now I can enjoy the rest of my evening with you.

Kiera Cass

#54. Daphne: You're the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself
Maxon: Knowledge isn't love..

Kiera Cass

#55. Yes, Maxon," I whispered. "It's possible.

Kiera Cass

#56. He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.
I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.

Kiera Cass

#57. On the contrary, Maxon held me so close I could smell his cologne and feel his stubble against my cheek.

Kiera Cass

#58. 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

#59. [But] I have come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I wish it was something I could save and share with the world so I could tell the universe: this is what it's like; this is how it feels when you fall.

Kiera Cass

#60. Lord knows what would happen to the country with you at the helm." I laughed along because he was right. "I'd probably ruin it." Maxon continued to smile when he spoke. "But maybe it needs ruining.

Kiera Cass

#61. I vote for a comedy," I said as we went down the stairs, Maxon leading the way. "I vote for action." "Well, you just said I was worth it, so I think I'm going to win this one.

Kiera Cass

#62. The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

Kiera Cass

#63. I got through breakfast and most of a meeting before thoughts of you consumed me. I told everyone I was sick and am now hiding in my room, writing to you, hoping this will make me feel like your home again.
-Maxon

Kiera Cass

#64. The knock came at the door, and I blew out the match, bolted over to the bed, and fanned out my dress. Why yes, Maxon, this is how I always look when I read.

Kiera Cass

#65. 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

#66. You ask for such simple things, I can't deny you.

Kiera Cass

#67. I hit your thigh!"
"Oh, please. A man doesn't need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

Kiera Cass

#68. Maxon sighed. "Honestly? I was trying to give the other girls a sporting chance. From the beginning, I've really only looked at you, wanted you.

Kiera Cass

#69. heard Maxon laugh once before shoving me out into the downpour.

Kiera Cass

#70. Maxon, you were the one who said you wanted to stop arguing. So stop giving me reasons to argue with you!

Kiera Cass

#71. You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale.

Kiera Cass

#72. When you find a safe place to unravel, when you feel the arms of eternity wrapping tight around you - you stay. You don't run and hide, or turn and fight. You stay there.

Elizabeth Maxon

#73. I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.

Kiera Cass

#74. Let her go!" That was a new voice, young but full of authority. ... There was Prince Maxon.
...
"Open the doors."
"But-Your Majesty-"
"Open the doors now and let her go. Now!

Kiera Cass

#75. Maxon: "To be clear, no one agrees with you."
America: "To be clear, I don't care.

Kiera Cass

#76. Maxon Schreave, you are nothing but a child who has his hands on a toy that he doesn't want but can't stand for someone else to have.

Kiera Cass

#77. I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.

Kiera Cass

#78. A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.

James D. Maxon

#79. Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now.

Kiera Cass

#80. Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe?

James D. Maxon

#81. 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

#82. Maxon managed to pull me even closer. "I was saving this one. I've put in time with all the other girls, so my obligations are over. Now I can enjoy the rest of the evening with you.

Kiera Cass

#83. There, lying in the hospital wing, my heart broke for the first time over Maxon Schreave.

Kiera Cass

#84. 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

#85. You once asked if I told Maxon about you, and I did. He knows exactly what a spineless, ungrateful jackass you are.

Kiera Cass

#86. I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes.

Kiera Cass

#87. I looked away. That wasn't something I could promise. I weighed Maxon and Aspen in my heart over and over, and neither of them ever had a true edge. Except, maybe, when I was alone with one of them. Because, at that moment, I was tempted to promise Maxon that I would be there for him in the end.

Kiera Cass

#88. We've got to stop being afraid of the change.

Kiera Cass

#89. I am not a
commodity! And neither are they! I
wish for once you would look at me
and see a person.- Maxon

Kiera Cass

#90. I've met nearly every woman in this room, and I can't think of one who would make a better friend. I'd be glad to have you stay."
My relief was inexpressible.
"Do you think," Maxon asked, "That I could still call you 'my dear'?"
"Not a chance." I whispered.

Kiera Cass

#91. 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.

Kiera Cass

#92. Do you think, that I could still call you 'my dear'?

Kiera Cass

#93. I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have.

Kiera Cass

#94. It turns out I'm terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem."
I smiled. "Have you really tried?"
He pretended to think about it. "Well, no. And don't expect me to start." -America and Maxon

Kiera Cass

#95. Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.

James D. Maxon

#96. Maxon looked down at my wrist. "Do you..." He looked up at me, seeming to rethink his question. "Do you want to dance?"
I nodded. "But I'm awful."
"We'll go slow.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#98. You've changed me forever. And I'll never forget you.

Kiera Cass

#99. Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak.

Kiera Cass

#100. If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered.
"Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk around the grounds tomorrow afternoon."
"You drive a hard bargain, sir, but I accept.

Kiera Cass