Melanie Cellier > Quotes

“I am soft. But that doesn't mean I'm not brave. I just save my bravery for when it's actually needed.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea

“Sometimes I have good ideas, sometimes I have bad ideas and sometimes I have colossally bad ideas.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea

“being beautiful to everyone didn’t matter. She just wanted to be beautiful to the right person.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“Don’t let them eat all those cookies, Coralie. I’m relying on you.” “I will not betray your trust,” she said with the utmost seriousness. I nodded. Cookies were serious business.”
― Melanie Cellier, Voice of Dominion

“If anyone had told me a year ago that I would find true love through a pea, I would have laughed.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea

“Stupid darkness. Stupid firelight. Making everything feel romantic. Stupid feelings. Would they ever go away and let me love someone who might actually love me back?”
― Melanie Cellier, A Dream of Ebony and White

“We just run, like the cowards we are.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Princess of Wind and Wave: a Retelling of The Little Mermaid

“First, choose yourself a man with a good heart, and then choose every day to see the good in him.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Captive of Wing and Feather: a Retelling of Swan Lake

“None of us were perfect, all of us made mistakes. It was how we responded to those mistakes that mattered the most, surely. Whether we took responsibility and did our best to make restitution. Whether we recognized our faults and sought to correct them.”
― Melanie Cellier, Beyond the Four Kingdoms Box Set One

“You have to promise to introduce me to your sisters. The beauty of the Lanoverian royal family is
famous throughout the Four Kingdoms, after all.'

'Why, thank you,' said Rafe with a straight face. 'I do pride myself on my beauty.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact Epilogue

“This is the problem with having a best friend who is also your cousin, and has known you since you were born" said Sara to Ava " She's always trying to stomp on your dreams”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Fugitive: A Reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood

“Fear is more natural for most of us who have found our way here, but love can’t thrive in a garden of fear.”
― Melanie Cellier, Beyond the Four Kingdoms Box Set Two

“Emotions aren’t weaknesses,” he said. “If you let them, they can even be strengths. I know my own are.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Four Kingdoms Box Set One

“I could tell you what to believe, of course. That would be easy. But then they would be my beliefs, not yours.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“Aye, and we’d have stood by you.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“Until I learned to control this fire inside me, I was better off keeping a distance from this prince whose eyes seemed to burn as strongly as my new and unknown power.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Crown of Snow and Ice

“She blew out the candle and wished she could blow out her thoughts just as easily.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Four Kingdoms Box Set Two

“Because we all knew the power of words. Words had the power of life—and the power of death.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Spoken Mage: Complete Series

“We can be forever holding onto the bad—because there will always be bad—or we can choose to see the good. First, choose yourself a man with a good heart, and then choose every day to see the good in him.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Captive of Wing and Feather: a Retelling of Swan Lake

“I, for one, was never innocent,” Bryony announced, taking a place across from us. “Or at least, that’s what my mother tells me.” “That I can well imagine,” Tyron said.”
― Melanie Cellier, Crown of Strength

“The beauty of true love is that it is freely given. You don't have to earn it. All you have to do is have the courage to accept it.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Mystery Princess

“I’m Princess Daisy.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Dance of Silver and Shadow

“If you wish to prove your ability to love, you must go on living and show that you can sacrifice every day, in the small things as well as the big.”
― Melanie Cellier, A Tale of Beauty and Beast

“Oh, aye.” Pierre leaned back in his seat,”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“I caught Celine’s eye roll just as Sophie projected, Gracious, he’s not good at getting to the point, is he?”
― Melanie Cellier, Beyond the Four Kingdoms Box Set One

“After he left, I spent half an hour crying into my pillow.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Four Kingdoms Box Set One

“I nodded. That much I knew, but I didn’t interrupt him. I would listen to everything he thought important enough to tell. It was the only way to be sure I didn’t miss hearing something of value that I didn’t yet know.”
― Melanie Cellier, Crown of Secrets

“Hope is important. No matter what, we need to hold on to hope.”
― Melanie Cellier, Vines of Promise and Deceit

“Aye.” The second man’s voice was deep and rough and seemed more suited to calling through the woods than advising royalty.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Princess Pact: a Twist on Rumpelstiltskin

“It was everything I had imagined and nothing like I had imagined at the same time. I suddenly knew with absolute certainty that I never wanted to kiss any other man. Max was it for me—would always be it.”
― Melanie Cellier, The Four Kingdoms Box Set One