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1 " You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. "
― Kiera Cass , The Elite (The Selection, #2)
2 " Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. "
3 " He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing.I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that. "
4 " It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets. "
5 " 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. "
6 " You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you. "
7 " ...I want it to be as easy as breathing for you to say yes. "
8 " The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing. "
9 " 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. "
10 " The look in Marlee's eyes was triumphant, and the smile hiding behind her cup of tea said, 'Gotcha'! "
11 " I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak. "
14 " 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. "
15 " I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth. "
16 " When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone. "
17 " 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? "
18 " Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? "
19 " It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem. "
20 " You were my pick. My only pick. "
