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“Oh Gwen… what kind of dad would I be if I tried to stop you from being who you were born to be?”

“‘Just enjoying what I see,’ the woman said with a faint smile. ‘A girl who knows exactly who she is.’”

“What you said, after the tea party—you were right. When someone kisses you, it should be because they want to. Need to. Because they can’t take another second wondering, dreaming, about what it would be like.”

“I am full of fire. There is always drama here—always someone coming, someone going, someone falling in love, someone crying out in grief. I cannot stop all the horses that wish to gallop through my mind. I must simply guide them.”

“That the one thing she truly wanted—had always wanted, since her mother told her that first story of knights and dragons and chivalry and protecting the helpless—was the one thing she could never have for herself, not in a million years, not in a world that was, and ever would be, run by men.”