People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.