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1 " Optics can be a bitch. "
― Gayle Forman , The Wickeds (Faraway Collection)
2 " She was neither beautiful nor ugly. Neither loving nor vicious. Neither wicked nor good. She was all of those things. We all are. "
3 " Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was? "
4 " You know, the portrait gallery is full of paintings of men who’ve killed those who have wronged them,” Elsinora said. “But they’re not called villains. They’re called heroes. "
5 " Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, whose real name, by the way, is Gwendolyn. "
6 " And for a moment, the women lost themselves in the nostalgia for an earlier, easier time, before their daughters, and the world, turned against them. "
7 " Her father did steal into my garden one night and take something dear from me,” she said. “But it was something far more precious than rampion. "
8 " I guess happily-ever-afters aren’t meant for people like us,” Elsinora said. She didn’t know—none of us did yet—that there was no such thing as a happily-ever-after. Not for any of us. "
9 " What do you think? Am I ugly?” she asked her friends. But Marguerite was beyond beauty. She was something else. Powerful. "
10 " They’d known, of course, that the burden of beauty was carried by women—after all, there were never any men in the waiting room at Dr. Youngblood’s—but it was only when they’d relieved themselves of the weight that they understood how heavy it was. "
11 " Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was? But then again, why do any of us? "
12 " another chapter of the same old story, written, still, by someone else’s invisible hand. "
