And how characters face the challenges at hand is what makes them heroes.
It will only lead to mistakes. Those mistakes will harden you and make you bitter. You’ll start resenting people who have found happiness. You’ll spread misery, hoping it will destroy your own, but it won’t. If you have a chance to validate something within yourself, then do yourself a favor and take that chance.
Only idiots listen with their eyes. If people don’t hear your words, then shout them. If people silence you, then write your message with fire.
That is the last time you will ever lay hands on me,” Brystal said. “And don’t you dare address me as daughter. You’re no father of mine.
To know someone’s deepest desires is to risk knowing them more than they want to be known.
We have to take some things for granted every now and then, otherwise we would live life afraid of losing everything.
If you dislike your looks to the point of hating and harming yourself, I’d say you’re just as cursed and trapped in the mirror as I am.
I don’t want to be inconvenienced in exchange for happiness!
Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s problems or a guarantee that life will be easy; it’s a promise we make ourselves to always live our best lives, despite whatever circumstance comes our way. When we focus on joy in times of heartbreak, when we choose to laugh on the days it’s hard to smile, and when we count our blessings over our losses – that’s what a true happily ever after is all about.
All it takes is one bad apple to disgrace the whole tree.
The taller you stand, the less weight you fell. Don’t ever let anything break your spirit.
There will always be people who are smarter and better writers than you – but what if your story is better than theirs? While experience and education help you become a better storyteller, it doesn’t always help with creativity. Sometimes being a good writer has nothing to do with style or skill, but depends solely on your imagination. Remember, if you have a story in your heart, then you have the right to write it.
She had the heart of a turkey, the determination of a duck, and the bravery of a goose.
Walking in a silence that said a thousand words.
No one ever changed the world by being beautiful. If you want to make a difference, you can’t let something as trivial as appearance get in your way. A daisy doesn’t need the roses’ permission to bloom – and neither do you.
Most skeletons in the closet don’t have wings. – Conner Bailey, to Alex Bailey.
After defeating Ezmia, the evil Enchantress, she had proven herself capable of leading the fairy-tale world – but perhaps she still hadn’t proven it to herself yet.
Happily ever after isn’t a finish line, it isn’t a paradise, and it isn’t a phenomenon that makes all your dreams come true. Happily ever after is about finding happiness within yourself and holding on to it through any storm that comes your way.
Oppression is a sport for the small-minded. Empathy is the path to true power,” Merlin lectured. “A great leader respects all walks of life; otherwise, life will walk all over them.” “Ain’t that the truth,” Mother Goose agreed. “It’s just like I told my friends during the Boston Tea Party: Tyranny is a revolution’s welcome mat.
You’re overexerting yourself, Alex,” the Fairy Godmother told her granddaughter. “You’re only one person. No matter how hard you try, you can’t help everyone. And you’re beginning to learn that some people can’t be helped, not because they’re helpless, but because they don’t want to be helped.