No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

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.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

In this case, two wrongs made a major right.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

Do you wanna be really really awesome? Just keep watching me.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.