...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

faint heart never won fair lady

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron.

That hurt querida, that really hurt

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.