“To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon... Your greatest fear.”

“You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.”

“Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”

“I love you, I thought. But I didn’t say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one— that she won’t say it back.”

“He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...”

“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”