Poe

“If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!”
― Kyo Shirodaira, Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning, Vol. 04

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Maybe the princess could save herself."
"That sounds like a pretty good story too.”
― Marissa Meyer, Fairest

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly