StorySeekers

“Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.”
“Really? Did it work?”
“Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.”
“I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“She’d trained herself for so long not to want or to hope or to wish, that she had a hard time pinning down something to ask for.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.”
― Sara Shepard, Never Have I Ever