Happy people are rarely interesting.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.

'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.

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