Schreave Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women."
I let out a sound that wasn't quite a laugh. "Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?

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#8. And his was so beautiful.

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

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#10. -understand. She'll want to visit her family."
"If she does, it can only be for a day at the most. I don't approve of her, but the people are fond of her, not to mention the Italians. It would be very inconvenient if she died.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I'm eighteen. I'm genetically encoded to fight with my parents.

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#13. It was a bubble of pure joy.
There were no cameras around to capture it, no reporters to tell the world about it. And for some
reason, that made it so much better.

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#14. What was so wrong with me that I got rejected simply for being myself?

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#15. 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.

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#16. Between Dad's confession that Mom wasn't even supposed to be a choice and Mom's revelation
that she didn't want to be a part of the choosing in the first place, I wondered how they had managed
to find each other at all

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#17. I watched him go and told myself that the only reason I was smiling like that was because the cameras were hidden somewhere, not because of anything Kile Woodwork had done.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. This is a dandelion, " I told him. He shrugged. "I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective.

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. Ahren grunted, holding his hand. "That hurts! Ow, that really hurts!

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#24. 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.

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#25. I still couldn't see any rhyme or reason to fighting through countless obstacles for love only to have it leave you powerless in the end.

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#26. I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.

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#27. There is no shame in loving who you love, and there is great honor in doing what is right. It's a pity those two things don't overlap for us, but that makes this moment no less important to me.

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#28. I never got to tell you so many things. Like how I wish I
could command a room like you. It's so impressive. Or how your eyes sparkle when you make a joke.
It's really pretty.

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#29. Go on a date or something, you need to get a life,

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#30. 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!

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#31. This time, I felt like I was on the other side of that, looking past duty and worry and rank, seeing the true heart of a person.
And his was so beautiful.

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#32. I didn't know it would be so easy to make you smile

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

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#34. It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place.

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#35. At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens.

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#36. 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.

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#37. Do you think that was good enough?"
"I ... um ... don't know,"
"Just to be sure.

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#38. 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

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. I loved those little bits of luxury in my day. Dresses made to
my exact measurements, exotic desserts flown in simply because it was Thursday, and an endless
supply of beautiful things were all perks; and they were easily my favorite parts of the job.

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

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#43. I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.

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

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#45. Love. Like clothes, I had guessed it was something that fit no two people exactly the same way. I was still unsure what the word looked like for me, but I sensed that sooner or rather than later, it would be fully defined. All that remained to be seen was if I could be satisfied with the definition.

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#46. 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.

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#47. Are you all right? I know last night was kind of scary."
"I just didn't expect it. It was asparagus ... He literally punched someone over a vegetable."
Kile laughed. "See, this is why you stick with butter."
"Oh, you and your stupid butter."

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#48. 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.

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