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

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.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

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.

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.