The Last Ever After Quotes

“Of all the tales in all the kingdoms in all the Woods, you had to walk into mine.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“Either you’re lying again or you’re as stupid as you look. You ditch me first year for him when you were a girl. You ditch me second year for him when you were a boy. You lie and cheat and steal for him while he treats you like crap, and I help you and care for you and worship you like a queen while you treat me like crap! What does that guy have that I don’t? What makes him so lovable and me so unworthy? Know how many times I’ve asked myself that question, Sophie? How many times I’ve studied him like a book or sat in the dark picturing every last shred of him, trying to understand why he’s more of a person than me? Or why the moment he’s gone, you take a ring from the School Master—or Raphael or Michelangelo or Donatello or whatever you want to call him to make yourself feel better—just because he looks like you want him to look and says what you want to hear? When you could have had someone who’s honest and kind and real?”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“And yet knowing all these mistakes were yours, beautifully yours, and you came out the better for it... the boy I left behind well on his way to becoming an extraordinary man and an extraordinary king." Merlin smiled. "If only from your choice of princess alone.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“A man cannot force his destiny. A man can only hold it back.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“Once a story was unfolding, it seemed you couldn’t go back.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After

“For the briefest of moments, sound and space feel away, the two of them locked in a gaze so strong that they became reflections of each other. Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Hero and Villain. Only as each other looked deeper, neither knew who was who. For in each other’s eyes, they saw the answers to their own soul’s silent questions, as if they weren’t reflections at all, but two halves of the same.”
― Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After