Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

How to be the best that you can be

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink