there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.