“He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me."Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined.""Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?”
“Who says happy endings are only in fairy tales? Pray, believe and wait patiently on God and He will make a fairy tale out of you”
“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”
“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”
“You make me believe in love, which I'd give up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale.”
“Do you believe in fairy tales?""What...what kind of fairy tales?""The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.”