Meg Cabot is the best author ever

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks