Janette Rallison quotes:

I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

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.

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

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

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...

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

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.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

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.

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

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

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

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

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at meLogan Hansen is here to see you.If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

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.

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.

You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.

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

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.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

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.

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

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

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

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.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

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

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

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

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.

Don't worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That's all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn't it?" "No," I said. She raised an eyebrow. "It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn't you?" Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. "Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?" She rolled her eyes. "No, you're confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

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

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

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

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

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

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

...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 can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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