14 Quotes by Samantha Ellis

But maybe I’ve changed. Or at least: maybe I am changing.

But you can’t rescue people; you can only help them rescue themselves.

I can’t help thinking that a heroine should be able to love without being erased.

It’s probably unwise to romanticize everything- and I’ll probably always do it.

I love the fact that Perrault’s princess goes on living and struggling after she finds her prince, and that Perrault doesn’t shrink from the weirdness of Sleeping Beauty being over a hundred years old but having the body of a lithe young thing. When the prince wakes her, he considers telling her she’s wearing the kind of clothes his grandmother used to wear, but decides it’s best not to mention it just yet.