“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Cinder
― Cinder
“Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.”
― Truly Devious
― Truly Devious
“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
― Once Upon a Broken Heart
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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