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Nina fell in love with him, just a teensy bit, for knowing to suggest ice cream on a first date.
TackyDaphne A commoner princess. She was something entirely new, something the likes of which the world had never seen. Which was why she had to be excruciatingly careful about her behavior. She had to act more princess-like than a princess by birth, more royal than the Washingtons themselves, or the entire fairy tale she’d spun around herself would fall apart.
Very Kate
In her frustration she flung her necklace across the room and it broke, scattering pearls over her floor like teardrops.
They were both outsiders who wanted to belong.
“I can’t believe I agreed to ride your motorcycle again.”
“Costco? Is that…grocery shopping?”
“Being a princess isn’t about wearing a crown. It’s about who you are in here.” She reached out to place her palm on Sam’s sweatshirt, square in the middle of her chest, and Sam’s heart wrenched.
“Welcome to being in your twenties.
She’d spent a lot of time in princes’ beds for a girl who hadn’t actually slept with either prince.
Gossip had begun hissing through the room like a winter wind;
She lifted a hand to shake Ethan awake, but instead she found herself tracing a finger over him—down
She walked slowly around the room, picking up various items—an eyelash curler, a spray of peonies in a bud vase—before setting them down again.
I’m like the mermaid from the Hans Christian Andersen story, only half-human.
I will never be able to stroll around the Duomo eating gelato.”
“A very smart girl once told me that if we want things to change, we need to change them ourselves.”
Not everything is about a man,”
“Dix minutes, s’il vous plaît, Marie, merci!” Daphne replied in a single breath, then glanced back at her phone. “Ethan, I have to go.”
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