Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

What did I do to make Mommy leave?” “You didn’t do anything. This isn’t your fault.” “Then why?” she’d wailed. “I don’t know,” her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. “It isn’t fair!” “No, it isn’t, baby. Not by a mile. The world’s only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.

To live is to love, to love is to live.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.