The Accidental Beauty Queen Quotes

“He's giving me the full Mr. Darcy treatment now. Not the evolved Darcy who meditates on the fine eyes and takes a sexy plunge in the pond at Pemberley, but the haughty, judgmental Darcy from the first half of Pride and Prejudice. Any minute now I expect him to declare that I'm tolerable, but not pretty enough to tempt him.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“I'm still not Meg March or Jane Bennet. I'll always be a Jo or a Lizzie, no matter what kind of dress I wear or how I style my hair. But that's okay, because for once, I feel like the heroine of my own story. It's taken pretending to be someone else to make me realize who I actually am.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“Being a twin means knowing you’re always part of a bigger whole. We were one once, and now we’ve been split in two.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“There's fire in my eyes and my lips are bee-stung, swollen with kisses. I look like a poem—something penned by Wordsworth, all dancing daffodils and smokeless air. I look like a woman in love.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“She's a stranger with a blotchy, swollen face, narrow slits for eyes, and lips at leaste four times the size of Angelina Joilie's. Not in a good way.
Ginny?
She starts to cry, and I wince. Asking her to verify her identity clearly wasn't the response she was hoping for.”
― Teri wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“She got bullied into giving up her anti-bullying platform. Oh, the irony.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“If memory serves, last year her platform was anti-bullying. But so many other contestants on the pageant circuit had already thrown themselves into the anti-bullying movement that she felt pressured to switch to something else. In other words, she got bullied into giving up her anti-bullying platform. Oh, the irony.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“I, for one, plan to be roaming the halls in a spa bathrobe and complimentary slippers en route to the vending machine for the majority of my stay.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections. There is nothing like it in the world.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“The book-quoting charmer has an actual name, and it's not Fitzwilliam Darcy. My literary heart should probably be disappointed, but it's not. Gray Beckham is an undeniably sexy name. Very manly. Very 007.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen

“I'm also concerned about my shoulders, my arms, the stiffness of my smile, and the possibility that I might have a hidden propensity for jazz hands.”
― Teri Wilson, The Accidental Beauty Queen