Butterface (The Hartigans, #1)

by Avery Flynn

“When you look like I do, you get used to people treating you as if you were just a punchline and not an actual human being. So yeah, people have tossed me into the boys locker rooms, walked away from me mid-sentence when someone hot walks into the room, and—oh yeah—sent me to a hotel room when I hadn’t been invited. Stuff like that has happened to me for pretty much my entire life. I guess that’s why my brothers are so overprotective of me.”

“The world is a visual place. People judge others on what they look like, from skin color to age to physical ability to prettiness, within seconds of meeting.

She wasn’t waiting for Prince Charming, and no fairy godmother was going to give her a makeover.

“We both know I’m not the girl who ends up with a happily ever after with a guy like you, so I need to walk away now while I still can.”