"Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress."

"My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn't princess material."

"What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already sent her home because I was relying on some sort of spark I didn't feel? What if she's waiting to leave me at the first sign of adversity? What if I don't find anyone at all? What do I do then, America?"

"I don't think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me."

"How can the truth make anything worse?"

"I've tried to make choices. You don't really trust me to."

"Tonight i was taking down a man."

"Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you'll always be a princess to me."

"But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did."

"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.'"

"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."

"I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger."

"You've changed me forever. And I'll never forget you."

"So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced."

"Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?"

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"Need someone to talk to? I could tug my ear right now."

"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."

"Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan."

"You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do."

"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."

"You're too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we'll have to send some of the guards with you. You'll never survive on your own, poor thing."

"My heart is yours to break."

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

"The Swendish queen- whose name I couldn't pronounce to save my life."

"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."

"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."

"He reached up and tugged his ear. And I did the same."

"Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak."

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

"It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets."

"I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now."

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

"I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone."

"True love is usually the most inconvenient kind."

"And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again."

"Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity."

"Perfect was my only option."

"Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too."

"I guessed princesses-in-training didn't wear pants."

"Eventually you will find something to put that energy into and you will be unstoppable. Even now with something you take no joy in, you do your task dutifuly, because it's all you can do. There's something beautiful in that, Collin."

"Bravery hides in amazing places."

"I sense that you won't let the world push you into a life you don't want. Maybe I'm wrong so let me at least say this: Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same. Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you. If you can keep from letting fear make you settle for second best, then I can't ask for anything more from you. Live your life. Be as happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight."

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

"He wasn't allowed to come with me there-my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen."

"It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character, it just matters what you do with it."

"For the first time maybe ever, it didn't matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it."

"I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows."