“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”
“I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.”
“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s a fairy tale, it’s obviously a romance novel, along the lines of “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”
“I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.”
“Shark snorts. “Hope? What’s that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.”