“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”

“Dont worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. Thats all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasnt it?No, I said.She raised an eyebrow. It must be. If you had admired any other qualiti...”

“Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.”

“I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.”

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. They know she'll ask for help in putting it back t...”

“Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”