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.

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

Castes never meant that much to me.

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

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

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.

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

Did I hurt you in the parking lot?""No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."Great.

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Love is divine act that can transform and bring a change of heart.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

On your birthday today, don't Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect As you've reached 60, you want to be happy, Trust me, you'll be depressed.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.