Soman Chainani

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Sophie and Agatha locked eyes one last time but neither screamed for the other.Once true loves, the two girls now pulled apart like strangers, each in the arms of a boy, Good with Good, Evil with Evil...Both of their wishes granted.

But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.

To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.

You aren__ jealous that Agatha gets a boy and a crown and a kingdom and everything else?_ Hort pressed in disbelief. __ou aren__ jealous that Agatha__ a queen?_ He saw her stop at the gates, faced away as students streamed past. __ tiny bit, of course,_ she said softly. __ut then I remember ._. _._ Sophie looked back, smiling bright as a diamond. ____ me.

Watching across the aisles, the Nevers' faces began to change. One by one, their scowls turned sorrowful, their eyes melted to hurt. Hort, Ravan, Anadil, even Hester...as if they too wished they could have such joy. As if they too wished they could feel as wanted. Gone was their will to fight, lost to broken hearts, and the villains shrank into silence, snakes drained of venom.

But as they grew closer and closer, Sophie had opened Agatha's wings to a love so strong she thought it would last forever. It was she and Sophie against the world. But on that first day of school, watching Sophie with a prince, Agatha realized how blind she'd been. The bond between two girls, no matter how fierce or loyal, changed once a boy came between them.

I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie."What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast."On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."And for the first time, she knew it was true.

And yet knowing all these mistakes were yours, beautifully yours, and you came out the better for it... the boy I left behind well on his way to becoming an extraordinary man and an extraordinary king." Merlin smiled. "If only from your choice of princess alone.

I've been beautiful all along.

Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Sophie bristled. __bout to die with your beloved prince and still thinking about me. My story will go on without you, Agatha. I don__ need you anymore or your pity, like one of your decrepit cats. I__ no longer your Good Deed.___ut I__ still yours,_ said Agatha. __ecause without your love, I__ never have become who I really am. So even if I die, I__l always be your Good Deed, Sophie. And no Evil in the world will ever erase that.

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.

The thing Tedros liked about girls is that they always started the conversation. Most of the time, his job was just to listen, ask questions, and try to understand what in God__ name was going on in their complicated little heads. He rarely had any idea what girls were talking about or why they made everything so torturous in their logic, so playing the role of the strong, silent type usually gave him time to catch up.

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."Sophie: "But then I can't talk!

Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.

Turns out all it takes to bring enemies to peace is a bigger enemy.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.