Time Quote by Shannon Hale

“If all relationships started badly, Prince Charming would disappear from every fairy tale ever written and romantic comedies would be filed under horror.”

— Marc Levy

“Instead, their storybook marriage had a dark chapter. A villainess side character, who remained stuck in-between the pages of their beloved fairy tale, and…

— Kristina Stangl

“Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall…

— Jodi Picoult

“My Prince Charming turned out to be the villain of my fairy tale. ”

— J.M. Darhower

Once upon a time there was a girl." "Not a princess?!" "No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger…

— Melissa Marr

“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.”

— Chad B Hanson

“I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on…

— PEACH-PIT

“This is not a romance. This is a love story. The characters are flawed to the point of being broken. The hero is beautiful,…

— C.J. Roberts

“This wasn’t supposed to be how our story went. In fairy tales, the prince saved the girl. In mine, the princess destroyed him.”

— Rachel E. Carter

“We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit…

— Chuck Klosterman

“In books, the hero was gone after the big blowup. He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the…

— Charlaine Harris