“Oh, this was champ. She’d found herself a Savage prince. Don’t laugh, she told herself. Don’t laugh, Aria.”
“She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”
“She likes herself, yet others hates / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises.”
“There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.”
“When everyone just shook their heads, he unbuttoned his shirt and,oh good Lord, shrugged out of it, bunching it up to slip beneath herhead like a pillow.Don’t look at him, she told herself. Don’t look—She looked.Sweet Jesus.”
“That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”