“The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.”

“Emma, but--" he began, and I shushed him. "No Emma buts except for the one I sit on.”

“I wasn’t exactly a stranger to feeling like a princess—if you meant the princess in the first half of the fairy tale. Cinderella as a scullery maid. Snow White with the wicked stepmother. But I wasn’t used to what life was like after you meet the prince, after the slipper fits, after the kiss wakes you from your slumber. It would take some getting used to.”

“My eyes are not worthy to look upon your face, yet they will not rest until they see you again.”

“I go running in the park all the time. I guess I never looked up.”

“Whoever lived in that apartment had a security gate, blinds that were closed and curtains drawn. It's probably darker in there than it is in Hollister.”

“What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death?”