Melissa Kantor · 283 pages
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“After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Nothing.
That's what happens to the stepmother in Cinderella.
Nothing.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“You were sleeping?" said Princess One.
"No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“People never think things that are true are funny.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Why is it I can spend a dozen Friday nights staring at the peeling walls of my "room" without anyone in the family so much as poking a head down to see if I'm alive, while the one time I actually have plans (major plans, plans that necessitate extraordinary focus and massive preparation), my stepmother suddenly suggests we sing a duet of "Getting to Know You"?”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.”
― Melissa Kantor, quote from If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?
“Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to fainting.”
― Tim Powers, quote from The Anubis Gates
“With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled "Females" and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being.”
― Loretta Chase, quote from Lord of Scoundrels
“The way you seem nervous makes me think you don't know that I'm in love with you."
I looked up at him, eyes wide and hands froze. Click.
"I love you, Petal. I've known it for a while now, but everything changed for me last night.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Beautiful Stranger
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, quote from The House of the Seven Gables
“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Canterville Ghost
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