When you love someone, you sacrifice.

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

—Kiera Cass in The Elite

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

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

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

—Kiera Cass in The Selection

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Sacrifice is romantic until the only payoff is a broken heart and endless pain.

—Deborah Bladon in CHANCE

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her… but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

—W. Somerset Maugham

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

—Mary Wortley Montagu