storybook romance Quotes

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is... Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

The love I knew was from books.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

She tasted of fairytales

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.