The Selection Trilogy Quotes

#1. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

#2. 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

#3. You have a ... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

Suzanne Collins

#4. I worked, and I was excited about the next time the five of us had a joint class.
When that time came, Silvia started by asking us what we were passionate about. I scribbled down my family, music, and then, as if the word demanded to be written, justice.

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

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

Kiera Cass

#7. Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

Anne Fadiman

#8. And when he realized I was on my way, his gaze flew up to mine. In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved.
The world woke up when I looked at him.

Kiera Cass

#9. I don't have sleeves to carry handkerchiefs in,' said Damen. 'I wouldn't mind being given a knife.' 'Or a fork?' said Laurent.

C.S. Pacat

#10. The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Kiera Cass

#12. It all floats down here!

Stephen King

#13. I ate the evidence he'd been murdered. What Carl called "Kevin," I called dinner.

Jarod Kintz

#14. Collectively, these findings tell us it's conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson