A Princess for Christmas Quotes

“Girls need love, not braids.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Oh my god, you are from a fake Hallmark country,” Leo deadpanned.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“An arm. It was merely an arm. Goodness. She was like a nineteenth-century gentleman tied into knots over the sight of an unexpectedly exposed ankle. “It’s . . . been a long few days,” she said lamely.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Was the princess of Eldovia really throwing snowballs at him? A third one thwacked his solar plexus, summoning an involuntary gasp. Yes, yes she was.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“If you want someone to listen to you, don’t yell. Yelling signals desperation. Speak quietly but firmly. Assume you will be heard.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“You don't let go of love without a fight." He smiled at her. "The part where you talk to him. The part where you try to keep him. The part where you let him decide he doesn't want you instead of making that decision for him.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Happiness - whether you're experiencing it or creating it for others - is important. And happiness and comfort, it turns out, are not the same things.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“His world shrank so those lips were the world. That rosebud. That heart. He swooped in, but stopped just short of her mouth, so the steam from his breath joined with hers. Waited. Because although he had come, rather rapidly, to his "fuck it" revelation, that didn't mean she had.

He hoped she had. Please let her have.

There were only a few millimeters between them.

She closed the gap.

It was different this time. This was premeditated, and they were in her secret place in the middle of the goddamn Alps.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Leo started coming down the stairs, and he looked exactly like he had two days ago, after the snowball fight. He looked like a predator. He also looked like a prince.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“It was the Hallmark movie he’d teased Marie about, except he was pretty sure Hallmark movies didn’t end in heartbreak and ruin. Of course, they also didn’t feature as much fucking as had happened the past few days, so clearly he was on the wrong channel.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Pinned down by the princess. There were worse places to be.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“As it relates to Buffy, I’m in the middle of season four, which, frankly, is the long slog on Riley.” “The long what?” “To my mind, be Team Spike or be Team Angel—I suppose. I don’t really get the latter, but I respect it. But Riley? That’s like being pro-beige.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Princess, I appreciate the trust, but now I’m going to have to insist on signing one.” He had been thinking about the document as an affront to his pride, as a symbol of the gulf between them. He hadn’t been thinking of it from her point of view, about what she risked when she made herself vulnerable to men who might turn out to be dickheads.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Show me the way you minister to yourself, and I will emulate it.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“I think,” he drawled. “This Hallmark movie is about to get a lot more interesting.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“She straightened her spine some more. “I propose we embark on a sexual affair for the duration of your time in Eldovia.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“For god’s sake, Leo thought as he and Gabby approached a cabin in the woods a half mile or so out of the village, this damn country really is a Hallmark movie come to life.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Dani sometimes reminded him that they were still siblings. Still family. “And what is family,” she said, “if not a bunch of people who annoy the hell out of you a large proportion of the time?”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“What would be in it for her?” Dani cracked up. Threw her head back and cackled. “What?” “Are you really that dumb?” Leo didn’t know how to answer that. So apparently he really was that dumb.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“If no one ever danced with the princess of Eldovia like no one was watching, it was safe to say no one ever talked dirty to the princess of Eldovia like no one was watching.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“He’d forgotten how amazing kissing could be, even—maybe especially—when it wasn’t just the precursor to more. Kissing for its own sake, like you had all the time in the world, was pretty fucking great. He could feel Marie relax as his tongue made its initial incursions. Even her head grew heavier in his hands. It was like she was shedding an invisible burden, surrendering it to him.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Exactly. She would drag my father out here, too, sometimes, and have picnics.” A mischievous smiled bloomed. “Supposedly I was conceived here.” “Well, hot damn.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“So you don’t want to have sex because you want to have sex; you want to have sex because you want to beat your future ex-husband at some imaginary sex-having game.” “That is . . . correct.” “Aww. My cousin broke you.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Holy shit, Gabby FaceTimed me earlier and showed me her room. You really ARE in a Hallmark movie. But seriously, are you hanging in there? HELLO? Where are you? Have you been indoctrinated into an Alpine cult? Don’t do that. I’d miss you.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Marie: You know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re lucky you’re only a minor royal, or your exploits would be all over the tabloids. If this were the nineteenth century, you’d be a rake. Max: So since it’s the twenty-first century, I’m what? A slut? Marie: You said it, not me. Max: You wound me.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Marie: Well, we’ll miss you at the ball. As for the PhD, I appreciate what you’re doing, but don’t do a degree you don’t want to do. Max: Don’t take this the wrong way. You know I love you, but I want to do a PhD a lot more than I want to . . . do you. LOL.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“She must have heard his unarticulated confusion, because she elaborated. “Eldovia is a constitutional monarchy. It has a Westminster parliamentary system.” He had no idea what that meant.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“Well. “I hope it was worth it.” He was kidding. There was no way the Bronx Technology Charter School production of The Wizard of Oz was worth the wrath of a king. When she didn’t laugh at his little joke, he glanced over at her. “It was.” She smiled at him. “It was worth it.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“But I don’t want you to have to postpone—” “Will you hush?” She hushed. It was very gratifying.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas

“But we should wait for Leo to watch.” Oh, this girl and her big heart. She was going to kill him.”
― Jenny Holiday, A Princess for Christmas