When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens – for good or bad it simply happens. – Katrina Svensen.
Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.
Happiness is sweetest when shared.
To forgive is to set someone free.
What is more terrifying – the things we imagine or the things that are real?
He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.
Asking a writer to change her voice is like asking a fairy to stop flying.
The trumpeter is beautiful to behold, graceful and elegant, just like our Ms. Swan. But if you disturb a trumpeter, trespass through its territory, or threaten its nest, it will hiss like a cobra and attack with the viciousness of a wolf. That is the black swan side.
While Ginger didn’t like the evil-recipe days, she certainly loved the treat-making days. She liked rolling dough and cutting it into perfect shapes. She liked grating chocolate into curlicues and pouring syrups into lollipop molds.
The greenhouse was made entirely of glass. Its ceiling reached five stories high, tall enough to fit a variety of fruit-bearing trees and vines. Butterflies flitted between sparkling flowers. Honeybees collected pollen for their hive, which conveniently drip honey right into glass jars. And watermelons, root beer melons, and orangeade melons grew along trellises.
Raised by a progressive mother, Rosabella was outspoken, free-willed, and passionate about her beliefs. Even though she was from Royal heritage, she rarely wore a tiara. She chose comfortable, layered dresses and tall, fake-fur-lined boots rather than filigreed gowns and platforms.
Fate will not write my story. I’m here to write it myself.
Anything was possible when you lived in a fairytale.
As long as there have been stories, there have been characters that refuse to stick to the outline.