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“People focused so much on the prince slipping on Cinderella’s lost shoe that they didn’t realize the real happily ever after was the moment she realized she was brave enough to go to the damned ball alone in the first place. “I’m not waiting around for some fuckboy to bring me a shoe. I’m here, working for you. I’m finding my own shoe,”
― Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default

“Sometimes,” he murmurs, “things need first to be ruined in order to then be remade.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glint

“So I’m doing it for you because that’s how people should behave; they should fill in each other’s gaps.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie