A World Without Princes Quotes

“It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can’t stand boys!”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“And Sophie and Agatha lived happily ever after, for girls don't need princes for love to call... No, they don't need princes in their fairy tales at all”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.

Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with
Good, Evil with Evil...

Both of their wishes granted.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can’t stand boys! They smell, they talk too much, they mess up everything, and they always have their hands in their pants, but that doesn’t mean we can go to school without them! It’s like stymphs without bones! It’s like witches without warts! Without boys, LIFE HAS NO POINT!”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“No one likes boys! Even girls who like boys can't stand boys! They smell, they talk too much, they mess up everything, and they always have their hands in their pants ...”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Nothing in this world was ever certain. Princes could become as frightening as ogres. Princesses could become villains. Best friends could become enemies.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“A prince and a witch, willing to kill each other for you," she rasped in her scratchy voice. "If it was me, I'd feel flattered." She watched the rodents disembowel the lizard and lifted her hooded red eyes. "Thankfully I don't have feelings.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Sophie, however, remained in place, buffing her ragged nails until she heard the deafening crash. Nonchalant, she crawled over the mass of moaning bodies at the door, wondering how boys had ever survived this long in nature if they didn’t even have the common sense to take turns going down stairs.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Helga’s gray pupils glued to the ground, unable to look at her student for a long time. Slowly, her long white hair retracted into her skull, growing scratchy and short. The grooves of her face magically deepened and the skin hardened to a leathery tan beneath a growing white beard. Her cheeks hollowed, her nose fattened, her eyebrows bushied, her body burlying to a barrel shape . . . until at last Yuba the Gnome gazed up at his former students, in the same lavender dress and wobbly heels. “Do you mind if I change?” he asked quietly. Sophie gawped at her old Forest Group teacher, morphed from a girl into a boy. She twirled to Agatha, appalled. “That’s how you want us to get in the boys’ school? By turning us into . . . gnomes?” Agatha banged her head against the wall.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“And a pink spell?” Anadil said, her three rats looking just as befuddled. “You definitely saw wrong. If a boy’s using a pink curse, it’d be serious black magic.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Who would end up the villain?”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“honor and valor that's what good is”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“There is an uneasiness that remains after your best friend tries to kill you.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Evelyn’s always one step ahead.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“And yet, everything in his eyes said he’d been tortured beyond what a boy could handle.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Walking. It ain’t hard,”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“A castle full of boys can end one of two ways. Either its inhabitants channel aggression into order, discipline, and productivity. Or they degenerate into hormonal apes.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“heroines who cut off fingers to save birds,”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Just ’cause we’re asleep don’t mean we can’t hear.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Evergirls and Nevergirls huddled side by side, watching a ghostly scene unfold atop the pages of A Student’s Revised History of the Woods to finish an assignment. Above their heads, murals of an idyllic school of girls presiding over enslaved boys, watermarked with Sophie’s and Agatha’s deified faces, stretched down the long dormitory walls.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Agatha was gone. Her best friend. Her soulmate.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Perhaps he'd foreseen even before she'd arrived that he'd die for her. And still he'd smiled at her. Still he'd helped her”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“Both of their wishes granted.”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“I feel like I’m missing something—”
― Soman Chainani, A World Without Princes

“1. Girls soften. Boys harden. 2. Girls reflect. Boys react. 3. Girls express. Boys suppress. 4. Girls desire. Boys hunt. 5. Girls caution. Boys ignore.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“Sophie gawped at her old Forest Group teacher, morphed from a girl into a boy. She twirled to Agatha, appalled. “That’s how you want us to get in the boys’ school? By turning us into . . . gnomes?” Agatha banged her head against the wall.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes

“I loved her so much,” he mumbled behind her, almost to himself. “I tried to make her wish come true. I tried to fix the story like a prince is supposed to. Kill the witch, kiss his princess. That’s how fairy tales work. That’s what she asked for.” His voice broke. “But I would have let Sophie live if it meant having Agatha forever. I would have kissed her right there and we would have had The End.”
― Soman Chainani, A World without Princes