Stacee Hadad

“The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I have seized the day, and the night too.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling; and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned. The great wave of the tide moved further along the island and the water lifted. Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies