He’d said all the words I’d ever hoped to hear: queen, wife, adore. The dreams I’d stored in my heart were actually comint true.
Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You’re a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.
On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve.
Wanting to cry doesn’t mean you can. Or at least not in any way that can give you some sort of satisfaction. It’s a luxury really. The same goes for songs and laughter, or the words whispered in the ear of a friend.
I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.
The calls are for updates and to see how her day went. The letters are for the things I can’t always say out loud.
It was like they carried the sun inside their souls and let it shine out on everything around them.
Only a true friend would try to get someone she cared about to become princess over herself.
I picked up another book, and we sat there in the happiest silence I’d ever known.
She wanted to be herself at all costs.
Just remember, your mother doesn’t let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.
When he made it about him, I didn’t stand a chance. Because I couldn’t hurt him.
He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.
No, actually. It’s like they’re two halves of the same heart in different bodies.
Be grand, be fearless. Make something people can’t look away from.
Maybe there would be one person who’d still want to kiss me when I had a runny nose or would rub my shoulders after a long day of meetings.
I’m not sure what it is, but you look like you’ve made and broken a lot of things and then made them all over again.
Maybe you stole me. Because I distinctly remember belonging to myself once, but now I’m all yours.
For a small period of time, she was the only one who understood what I was feeling. She made me feel less isolated in my sadness.