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“Need I remind you that this Selection was your idea?”

She sighed.

“Listen to your daughter,” Dad said. “Very smart girl. Gets it from me.”

“Don’t you want some more sleep?” she asked flatly.

“No, I’m feeling very refreshed,” he said. I wasn’t sure if it was because he wanted to continue the conversation or if he felt he needed to keep his attention on Mom. Either way, he was clearly lying.

“Dad, you look like death punched you in the face.”

“You must get that from me, too.”

“Dad!”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“Beauty is wherever you find it, and Beast is there when you need to defend it.”
― Stacey Jay, Of Beast and Beauty

“But the truth is, love is as much fate as it is planning, as much a beauty as it is a disaster.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“It gives me pleasure to walk through a room full of books and know that one of them might be the next story I fall in love with.”
― Melissa McShane, Servant of the Crown