Top 500 Kiera Cass Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “America, my dear, I do hope you find something in this cage worth fighting for. After all this, I can only imagine what it would be like to see you actually try.”

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202. “For the first time maybe ever, it didn’t matter if I looked beautiful or not. I felt it.”

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203. “America, my dear, I hope you find something, in this cage worth fighting for.”

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204. “The most valuable thing you can own is the assurance of your place in someone’s heart.”

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205. “You made me proud, America. Sometimes I’m surprised at the things you say, but I don’t know why. You were always stronger than you knew.”

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206. “Maxon Schreave, you are nothing but a child who has his hands on a toy that he doesn’t want but can’t stand for someone else to have.”

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207. “When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice. There are a handful of people who I’d lay down my life for without a second thought.”

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208. “Maybe one day another life might catch up with me. Or there could be no other life at all. I guess I couldn’t say for sure. Either way, I choose Akinli. There are some things you just know. And I know I want Akinli. I hope that will always be a good enough answer: that he’s what I would take over anything else.”

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209. “Celeste had been raised to be a specific kind of pretty. That beauty depended on covering things up, shifting the light, and seeking to be perfect at all times. But there is a different kind of beauty that comes with humility and honesty, and she was glowing with it now. Maxon.”

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210. “You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even if the thing that is most perfect for you.”

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211. “This is a dandelion, ” I told him. He shrugged. “I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective.”

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212. “It’s hard to know everything about people close to you, even the people you love the most.”

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213. “No, actually. It’s like they’re two halves of the same heart in different bodies.”

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214. “By birth you have been blessed, and it is time to acknowledge that blessing.”

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215. “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.”

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216. “We swayed, barely moving. I settled my cheek on Maxon’s chest, he rested his chin on my head, and we spun to the music of the rain.”

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217. “My plan is to enjoy the food until you kick me out.” He.”

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218. “This Maxon, he is handsome. How can I get into the Selection?”

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219. “I love you,” he said simply. “I should have told you a long time ago. Maybe we could have avoided so many stupid mistakes if I had. Then again,” he added, beginning to smile, “sometimes I think it was all those obstacles that made me love you so deeply.”

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220. “If you live,” I whispered, “I’ll let you call me your dear. I won’t complain, I promise.”

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221. “I’ve heard a collective gasp. I ran over the sentence in my head. It took me a minute to catch my mistake; I’d called him Maxon.”

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222. “I really hope so. Partly because, yes, we’re duty bound to produce heirs. But also... I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy seasons and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter finger-prints on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.” – Maxon Schreave.”

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223. “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.”

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224. “You have to do whatever it takes to be with the person you love.”

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

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226. “But it felt so unfair, like everything was being taken away from me before it had even truly been mine in the first place.”

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227. “It’s just the way it is. The sky is blue, the sun is bright and Aspen endlessly loves America. It’s how the world was designed to be.” I felt the lift of her cheek against my chest as she smiled. If I couldn’t bring myself to apologize, maybe I could at least make it clear that those last minutes in the tree house were a fluke. “Seriously, Mer, you’re the only girl I ever wanted. I couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. I’ve been trying to prepare myself for that, just in case, and... I can’t.”

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228. “But shouldn’t there be a least? Shouldn’t there be a bare minimum that life should give you? Is it too much to ask for a job you don’t hate, or for someone to truly have and hold? Is it too much to ask for one child? Even one some would call flawed? Couldn’t I at least have that?”

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229. “You have to do whatever it takes to be with the person you love. Love, like gloves, I had guessed was something that fit no two people the exact same way.”

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230. “My heart is yours to break.”

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231. “Are you all right? You seem tense,” Maxon noted. “You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes,” I said with a shrug.”

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232. “Of course you have. Because when you’re on the bottom, your only choice is to blame the top.”

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233. “His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.”

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234. “Maybe this isn’t the right thing to say, but I want you to know: when you ran for the stage, I’ve never been so proud of you in all my life. You’ve always been beautiful; you’ve always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it.”

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235. “Focus less on what people say and more on what you can accomplish.”

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236. “If me dying meant you living, how could that be anything but good?”

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237. “Mary took hold of the zipper. “Suck it in, miss.” I obeyed, and as the dress cinched me in again, I thought of a soldier going to war. Different armor but the same idea. Tonight I was taking down a man.”

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238. “But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster. Finding.”

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239. “On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve.”

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240. “I’m desperate for peace. I think you might be the only chance I have at that.” I smiled. “The center of your storm?” He exhaled, looking relieved. “Yes.”

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241. “You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you. Your brother whisked away a girl and got married in a whirlwind and could be discovering right now that she snores so loudly, he can’t even sleep.” I.”

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242. “Anything you need, anything you want, say the words. I will do everything I can for you.”

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243. “Don’t call me that! I am no more dear to you than the thirty-four other strangers you have here in your cage.”

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244. “I rose, locking eyes with Maxon, who I noticed had stopped chewing.”

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245. “I was home. And I finally found my voice. Yes.”

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246. “Y a veces la gente no sabe si interpretar el silencio como confianza en ti misma o como miedo. Te miran todo el rato como si fueras un bicho raro, a ver si al final consiguen que te sientas como tal.”

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247. “Miss America Singer of Carolina, Five.” I.”

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248. “When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don’t think it’s fair that when I act similarly, I’m seen as cruel. I’m making a huge decision, and I’m trying to be wise about it.”

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249. “But I don’t want to get married,” I pleaded. “Please don’t make me do this. I’m only eighteen.” “Which is how old I was when I married your father,” Mom stated.”

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250. “You’ve got to stop thinking of me that way. When it’s just you and me, I’m not a Five and you’re not a Six. We’re just Aspen and America. And I don’t want anything in the world but you.”

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