The Crown Quotes

“This is a dandelion, " I told him. He shrugged. "I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“IT’S A FUNNY THING TO be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you might find one yourself. You can read the stories and watch the movies, and you can think you know how it’s all supposed to unfold.

But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster.

Finding a prince might mean kissing a lot of frogs. Or kicking a lot of frogs out of your house. Falling might mean running headfirst into something you always wanted. Or dipping your toe into something you’ve been scared of your whole life. Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes'.”
― Kiera Cass

“It’s a funny thing to be the product of a fairy-tale romance. It’s another thing to think you might find one yourself. You can read the stories and watch the movies, and you can think you know how it’s all supposed to unfold.
But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster.
Finding a prince might mean kissing a lot of frogs. Or kicking a lot of frogs out of your house. Falling might mean running headfirst into something you always wanted. Or dipping your toe into something you’ve been scared of your whole life. Happily ever after could be waiting in a field a mile wide. Or a window as narrow as seven minutes.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I took a deep breath. “I don’t want to
marry Henri. I want to marry Eikko.”
“Who?”
“Erik. His translator. I’m in love with him,
and I want to marry him. And even though
he hates having his picture taken, I want to
take a thousand so I can put him on my wall
and wake up to us laughing every day, just
like you do with Mom. And I want him to
make me doughnuts, just like his mom does
for his dad. Even if I have to let out all my
dresses. And I want us to find our own thing
or maybe find out that our own thing is
everything, because I feel like if I have him, even the stupid stuff would matter.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I just remembered I could lead and still like flowers.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living."
-Winston S. Churchill”
― Robert Lacey, The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen

“We're all dying. That's what defines the condition of living.”
― Winston Churchill, The Crown

“You are everything to everyone. And infinitely more to me.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I’m a lot of things. Infatuated, frightened, desperate, hopeful. It’d be nice to add ‘in love’ to the list.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Often blessings and burdens comes hand in hand. The bigger the Crown the heavier the burden”
― Jeanette Coron

“And that was a small silver lining on an otherwise dreary day.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Do you know how scary it is for me to say all that?”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Not that I’m mad that I like you...except that I kind of am.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Opening up to people is not a skill of mine.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Of course the one time I let myself fall in love, it’s with someone in another stratosphere.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I cannot begin to express how eager I am to see what you have in store for our country.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“People have to be angry at someone. But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.”
― Winston Churchill

“I still couldn’t see any rhyme or reason to fighting through countless obstacles for love only to have it leave you so powerless in the end.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I had power and no idea how to use it. I was a ruler who didn’t know how to lead. I was a twin who was on her own. I was a daughter with missing parents. I had a half dozen suitors and wasn’t sure how to be in love.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I was fine not liking you. I was fine not liking anyone. And now I’m in the middle of this thing and so lost I can hardly think straight. But I know that you matter, and I don’t know what to do about it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“It’s like they’re two halves of the same heart in different bodies.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“It seems they’re reporting little news and plenty of gossip these days.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“But 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? I want to think about that, too.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I’m only trying to say that looks aren’t everything. We need to focus on other qualities.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I reminded myself that if I was going to have a shot at happiness at all, I had to let someone past my walls.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“How could one person make sure each and every soul had every chance they could, everything they needed? It wasn’t possible. And yet, stepping down didn’t seem like the solution either.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I’d wondered how it was possible to magically find a soul mate in a random group of boys. But now I couldn’t question it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“I’ll be watching your skyrocketing career with interest, sir.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“He didn’t think twice about smiling at me like I was his sun and stars.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.”
― Robert Lacey, The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen