“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“And Sophie and Agatha lived happily ever after, for girls don't need princes for love to call... No, they don't need princes in their fairy tales at all”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can’t stand boys!”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.
Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with
Good, Evil with Evil...
Both of their wishes granted.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can’t stand boys! They smell, they talk too much, they mess up everything, and they always have their hands in their pants, but that doesn’t mean we can go to school without them! It’s like stymphs without bones! It’s like witches without warts! Without boys, LIFE HAS NO POINT!”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can't stand boys! They smell, they talk too much, they mess up everything, and they always have their hands in their pants ...”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Nothing in this world was ever certain. Princes could become as frightening as ogres. Princesses could become villains. Best friends could become enemies.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Who would end up the villain?”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“honor and valor that's what good is”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
“Sophie, however, remained in place, buffing her ragged nails until she heard the deafening crash. Nonchalant, she crawled over the mass of moaning bodies at the door, wondering how boys had ever survived this long in nature if they didn’t even have the common sense to take turns going down stairs.”
― Soman Chainani, quote from A World Without Princes
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“Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
-Carmen's grandmother”
― Ann Brashares, quote from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were usually taught. There is a kind of unspoken collusion going on in mainstream science education: you get your competent but bored, insecure and hence stodgy teacher talking to an audience divided between engineering students, who are going to be responsible for making bridges that won’t fall down or airplanes that won’t suddenly plunge vertically into the ground at six hundred miles an hour, and who by definition get sweaty palms and vindictive attitudes when their teacher suddenly veers off track and begins raving about wild and completely nonintuitive phenomena; and physics students, who derive much of their self-esteem from knowing that they are smarter and morally purer than the engineering students, and who by definition don’t want to hear about anything that makes no fucking sense. This collusion results in the professor saying: (something along the lines of) dust is heavier than air, therefore it falls until it hits the ground. That’s all there is to know about dust. The engineers love it because they like their issues dead and crucified like butterflies under glass. The physicists love it because they want to think they understand everything. No one asks difficult questions. And outside the windows, the dust devils continue to gambol across the campus.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Cryptonomicon
“He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“How long did you want me to stay?”
“Forever.”
― Sylvain Reynard, quote from Gabriel's Inferno
“Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you see them, that’s how they really are.”
― Olive Ann Burns, quote from Cold Sassy Tree
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