Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.