Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?

I know all about you," Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. "You do? How could you?" "Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you." He looked sideways at me. "Do you know much about me?

Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.

He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic . . . muscular.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself