One Kiera Quotes

#1. You should pick one, Kiera. Pick one, and release the other. You can't keep them both. -Jenny

S.C. Stephens

#2. Didn't they know who I was, what they'd trained me for? I was Eadlyn Schreave. No one was more powerful than me.
So if they thought I was going down without a fight, they were sadly mistaken.

Kiera Cass

#3. 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

#4. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.

Kiera Cass

#5. And who was I? No one, really. Just a girl. But seeing myself through his eyes... I felt like so much more.

Kiera Cass

#6. Elise smiled. "I don't need a line. I just need one."
"Well, I need a line," Celeste said

Kiera Cass

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. If there's one thing I've learned from being in the Selection, it's that some girls have a frightening killer instinct. Don't let the ball gowns fool you, she finished with a smile.

Kiera Cass

#11. You know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy. I was just in a room with eight very unhappy woman and I have no idea why anyone would choose that.

Kiera Cass

#12. Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

Kiera Cass

#13. When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#15. If it would make you happy, I could let the staff know you prefer the garden. Then you can come out here at night without being manhandled by the guard. I would prefer if you had one nearby, though.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#18. - 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

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

Kiera Cass

#20. We kept eating for a while and I though maybe this would be enough for one night. We'd moved into a very safe territiory. I could talk about desserts for hours! But then, without warrning, he started talking about his life again.

Kiera Cass

#21. 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

#22. One rebellious penny that must have been sticky stayed glued to the bottom.

Kiera Cass

#23. 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

#24. For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-"
"I'm not mysterious," I interrupted.
"You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.

Kiera Cass

#25. I didn't have to worry about her, which was why she couldn't leave the palace one day. What about me?

Kiera Cass

#26. It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish?

Kiera Cass

#27. Beside him, another guard recognized me, and one by one they bowed, deeply and reverently.

Kiera Cass

#28. Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

Kiera Cass

#29. It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether.

Kiera Cass

#30. I wanted to make a good first impression with these girls - and a good second impression with one - and apparently I was convinced this all hung on picking out the right tie. I sighed. These girls were already turning me into a puddle of stupid.

Kiera Cass

#31. To be clear, no one agrees with you."
"To be clear, I don't care.

Kiera Cass

#32. 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

#33. You're such a good cook. You're going to make someone very fat and happy one day," he said, his mouth half full with a bite of apple.

"I'm going to make you fat and happy. You know that."

"Ah, to be fat!

Kiera Cass

#34. Trust me, Mer, any man who passes up the chance to be with you is the stupid one."
"You tried to pass me up," I reminded him.
"That's how I know," he replied with a smile.

Kiera Cass

#35. It's a funny thing that to be a product of a fairytale romance. It's another thing to think you might find one yourself. You can read the stories and watch the movies, you can think you know how it all unfolds. But the truth is love is as much fate as it is planning, as a beauty as it is a disaster.

Kiera Cass

#36. Maybe there would be one person who'd still want to kiss me when I had a runny nose or would rub my shoulders after a long day of meetings.

Kiera Cass

#37. You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.

Kiera Cass

#38. Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

Kiera Cass

#39. This was why love was a terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me

Kiera Cass

#40. And there we were, in the background of it all, holding on to one another. The Perfectionist, the Sweetheart, the Diva ... and me.

Kiera Cass

#41. I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#43. You can't seem to keep your eyes in one place. I can tell that you're paying attention, but you seem to be looking for something." I

Kiera Cass

#44. I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar.
He smiled. "They're at home, waiting."
"For what?"
His eyes glittered. "That, I cannot say.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#46. Of all the lies you've told me, that's the one I resent the most.

Kiera Cass

#47. When we met, you couldn't stop staring at my breasts."
His face went pale, as if he seriously thought he was so subtle no one would notice. "Make sure you get an equally satisfactory look a my backside as you leave.

Kiera Cass

#48. You said that to get things right one of us would have to take a leap of faith. I think I've discovered the canyon that must be leaped, and I hope to find you waiting for me on the other side.

Kiera Cass

#49. It's like you get three lives. One with no idea how to live it, one with more power than anyone could imagine, and one with a true sense of self and the ability to pursue anything you want.

Kiera Cass

#50. I smiled to myself, thinking of America, measuring her against the other girls. She was pretty, if a bit rough on the edges. It was an uncommon type of beauty, and I could tell she wasn't aware of it.

Kiera Cass

#51. No, no, no! I am not giving birth backstage at a rock concert. I need to be in a hospital, pumped full of every drug that they can legally give me!
I was so shocked, my only repsonse was,
'Well, he was conceived backstage at a concert, so it's sort of fitting for him to be born at one.

S.C. Stephens

#52. 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

#53. I'd heard my mom talk about your first love being the one that sticks with you

Kiera Cass

#54. I admired the thought of a common boy feeling brave enough to face the challenge of becoming prince. But no one was going to tie me down before I was ready, and I was going to make sure those poor suckers knew what they were signing up for.

Kiera Cass

#55. Having a boy see you, acknowledge you in such a way that you felt sure no one had ever experienced that feeling before, all the while knowing you'd joined a long line of people who did the same dance to find the person they spend their lives with.

Kiera Cass

#56. Was I the only one who saw how flawed I was?

Kiera Cass

#57. 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

#58. For a small period of time, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. She made me feel less isolated in my sadness.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#61. I didn't want to be royalty. And I didn't want to be a One. I didn't even want to try.

Kiera Cass

#62. If there are no pop stars churning out those mind-numbing songs, then there are no musicians in the booths backing them up, no clerks running back and forth with tapes, no shop owners selling the music. Taking out one person at the top destroys thousands at the bottom.

Kiera Cass

#63. We would live together and weave out lives into one another's and hold on to a sacred sisterhood that only a handful of women ever experienced.

Kiera Cass

#64. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.

Kiera Cass

#65. But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#68. Ivan held both hands in front of him as if this was very serious. My current approach is using one fork for each bite and then making a pile of them in the middle of the table.

Kiera Cass

#69. 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

#70. Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#72. I suppose it's one way to forget what's going on around them

Kiera Cass

#73. Because I love you more than any one person should be allowed to love someone.

S.C. Stephens

#74. This girl? Imagine that she depends on you. She needs you to cherish her and make her feel like the Selection didn't even happen. Like if you were dropped on your own out in the middle of the country to wander around door to door, she was always the one you would have picked. - America

Kiera Cass

#75. It was slow but brief, and in those few seconds I felt that need, that sense of longing, that Aspen tended to inspire in me. One look at his emerald eyes, hungry and deep, and I felt my knees start to go shaky.

Kiera Cass

#76. Opinions change. Don't let that one moment bring you down too much.

Kiera Cass

#77. It felt like a wonderful secret that I could revisit in the middle of one of Silvia's boring lessons or another long day in the Women's Room.

Kiera Cass

#78. 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

#79. I'm Eadlyn Schreave and no one in the world is as powerful as me.

Kiera Cass

#80. Lord help the female population if Kellan and I have a boy one day.

S.C. Stephens

#81. When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don't think it's fair that when I act similarly, I'm seen as cruel. I'm making a huge decision, and I'm trying to be wise about it.

Kiera Cass

#82. For those of us with BPD, entering into a shared experience means passing through the ring of fire that leaves us feeling even more burned - and in this case branded with a label no one would ever choose to wear.

Kiera Van Gelder

#83. How could I explain that no one was looking for me because my only family was a bunch of slightly mythological girls and they knew I couldn't get myself into much more trouble than I was already in?

Kiera Cass

#84. I only have one heart, and I'm saving it.

Kiera Cass

#85. If we're going to have a party, might as well make it a good one.

Kiera Cass

#86. [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

#87. Your name will be in a history book one day, and some bored ten-year-old will memorize it for a test and then forget all about you. You have a job, just like everyone in the world. Stop acting like it makes you more or less than anyone else.

Kiera Cass

#88. It took only one charged second to hear the heart that I'd had so little faith in.

Kiera Cass

#89. You are Eadlyn Schreave. You are the next person in line to run this country, and you will be the
first girl to do it on your own. No one," I said, "is as powerful as you.

Kiera Cass