There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

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About Kiera Cass

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Kiera Cass (born May 19, 1981) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series.

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When you love someone, you sacrifice.

—Kiera Cass in The One

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

—Kiera Cass in The Elite

It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you. You know that you've found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.

—Kiera Cass in The Elite

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

—Kiera Cass in The Heir

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It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.

—Kiera Cass in The Selection

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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the green earth—you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent—but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he's going to treat you like sports fish.

—Steve Harvey in Think Like a Man

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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Buddhism is not a refuge from life. It is life stripped bare and known most intimately. Zen doesn't make you a "better person." It helps you become fully human. My mentor was no model for how to behave perfectly but for how to experience completely. He never told me how to live my life. He just helped me become alive.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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I dreamed of you every night. It felt so real. And when I'd wake up the next morning, it was like your disappearance was fresh. Like you'd left me all over again.

—Brodi Ashton in Everneath

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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