The Last Ever After Quotes
"It is natural to doubt your true love when you do not know if he is young or old."
"Every day it rises weaker than the one before."
"The Storian keeps our world alive by writing new stories, and at the moment, it has no intention of moving on from your story."
"You’re nothing but a boy—a well-built, virile, obscenely handsome boy—but still, a boy."
"What is it about a name that gives us a story to believe in?"
"If I was all-powerful, I could make you love me," he growled.
"No one can make anyone love them," she hit back.
"A queen would have the right to ask me questions about the school she rules," he said. "You are not a queen yet."
"It doesn’t matter where your Ever After is, does it? It just matters who you’re with," she said, trying to sound hopeful.
"What if there’s a different kind of love? A darker love that turns pain into power."
"I am the mirror of your soul, Sophie. To love me is to love yourself," he whispered.
"You must trust your story, Sophie. It has come to The End for a reason."
"Every tiny thing that bothers you about me must be magnified a thousand times."
"What if I’m the problem? Every time I try to be happy, it goes wrong."
"You can’t plan your story any more than you can plan who you’re going to fall in love with. That’s the point of a story."
"Justice is only delivered when there is a crime."
"Every story has a lesson doesn't it, young prince? Perhaps yours is that you're too old to believe in fairy tales."
"You must repay my old debt to him, Agatha. You must save Sophie as Stefan saved you."
"As long as Sophie wears his ring, the School Master remains immortal."
"Love wasn't enough for them anymore. They needed their best friend."
"Then again, you could always meet a boy in Camelot. Not much of a kingdom anymore, but plenty of peasant boys to choose from."
"You might like me now, but what happens when I get old? Will you still want me then?"
"But friendship wasn’t enough for Sophie anymore. She needed love."
"That they’ll leave us in peace and go on their way if you tell them to?"
"Then you’ll have to prove me wrong, won’t you?"
"Rescue them from a grave'—those were my orders, Uma puffed as she smushed through the flower wall after them."
"Someone must have—someone must have brought them back—"
"What monster would bring dwarves back just to kill them?" said Agatha.
"Because if anyone can make Sophie see what love really is... it's her best friend, isn't it?"
"But what's remarkable is that for all our errors, we're both still alive."
"Our families cannot last, for there is no real love at their core."
"All you have to do is prove you love Rafal as much as Agatha loves Tedros... that you'll sacrifice for your love as much as Agatha would for her prince."
"Evil attacks and Good defends. And when Evil attacks, it kills."
"Either you kill Agatha and her true love ... or they will kill yours."
"Then you aren't just Evil, you are its deserved queen."
"Mother and son as Deans ... Old and New working together for Evil."
"I haven't the foggiest idea how to teach a class!"
"My job as Dean is to ensure you do not end up alone, Sophie."
"If you could save Good, would you sacrifice Rafal?"
"I need proof Rafal is the one. Then I'll stop doubting. Then I'll stop thinking of other boys."
"With every new letter, Sophie’s soul breathed freer, lighter, as if a crushing weight had been lifted."
"There was no way that name was her happy ending."
"Because the name the ring had tattooed on Sophie’s skin, the name it had promised was her one true love, was the name of the prince she was supposed to kill."
"But a good wizard can’t very well loaf in like a delivery boy, can he?"
"Nice to see the future of Camelot is in mature hands."
"Look for the girl who will give you a good kick in the rump."
"You’ll never know how hard it was to leave you."
"No matter how far I went, each kingdom just as familiar with the legend of Arthur as the next."
"The sun rises on the Woods only as long as the pen preserves that balance."
"Your fairy tale has been open too long, children."
"Like a magician performing his final trick, Merlin carefully pulled a tear-shaped vial from his hat into the glow of the rising sun."
"It is my recipe after all. Made just enough for two."
"Well, my dear. At least you can say you’re even now."
"Seems strange you’d whisper the name of the boy you’re supposed to kill."
"Then you’ll have to erase him once and for all, won’t you? Along with his fair princess."
"As long as my name is the one written in your heart, their days are numbered."
"But it doesn’t matter, my love. As long as my name is the one written in your heart, their days are numbered."
"Instead of safe, she felt scared; instead of loved, she felt caged."
"Because underneath the prince, you see I’m . . . I’m . . . nothing."
"Here you are worried that I’ll leave when I see your real self . . . when that’s the part of you that lets me stay."
"As he slowly leaned towards her, she smelled his minty breath and closed her eyes."
"This is where you tell me how to get your sword," Agatha whispered."
"Because Merlin thinks you’re the only one who can get into the School for Old alive."
"Because you’re as young as me and I’m as young as you."
"Have you ever met an old person who’s young?" her reflection fleered."
"The muscleless legs . . . flaccid wrists . . . weak jaw . . . almost feminine, don’t you think?"
"I spent years trapped in a cave, abandoned by my own mother, and yet I taught myself not to shed a tear."
"Magic? How feeble." He yanked her down the stairs by the whip like a leash."
"That single moment when three friends had been torn apart."
"After all this, she’d never see her best friends again, she thought, battling a wave of sadness."
"If they’d looked closer, they may have seen a small rain puddle still rippling over stone."
"Captain Hook, the Captain Hook, was looking for her?"
"You can’t hurt me more than you already have, Tedros."
"Do you know why I wanted a fairy tale my whole life? Because a fairy tale means love that never ends."
"You think we’d come all this way if we didn’t love you? We’re your best friends."
"When you fight for love, sometimes you think it’s you against the world. You become scared. You see what isn’t there."
"You won’t be alone, Sophie. You’ll have two people who want to see you happy."
"All I’m asking is that you keep yourself open before you decide for sure. The End isn’t written yet, is it?"
"Happy endings take time and work and commitment."
"Our fairy tale brought us back together, here and now, because it wants a different ending."
"What if the one power to keep stories alive discovers that the Good stories they hold dear are all a lie? That Evil always wins, has always won, and always will?"
"The most dangerous person in a fairy tale is the one willing to do anything for love."
"Tried to be her roommate, tried to be her best friend, and now you’re her slave. Nice muscles by the way. If only a hot body cured spinelessness and servility."
"If you don’t get out of my reach in the next three seconds, I’ll—"
"Dreams aren’t just dreams, Agatha. Not in this world."
"You really think you still have a chance with her, don’t you? That’s why you chased her. That’s why you’re still here."
"But I need Tedros to give me a chance like he promised. I need him to . . . kiss me. Because once he kisses me, he’ll know I’m his queen."
"It doesn’t matter what I agreed. You promised to destroy the ring as soon as we left school—"
"The only way you’ll overcome that fear is if you enable the truth."
"A man cannot force his own destiny. A man can only hold it back."
"Neither of us knows whether your doubts of being a queen are well-founded or whether Sophie is Tedros’ true love or whether Sophie will destroy the ring."
"Every boy would rather have a girl who eats."
"I’m ready to be king. I’ve been parentless for years now, so I’m not one of those sheltered brats who’ll put himself before his people like some young kings."
"It’s just... it’s freezing, the doors were wide open, and the towers had no way inside—"
"There are two queens. There’s the queen who doubts her crown. Choose her and you’ll forever distrust each other, sparring and bickering, because in her heart of hearts, she doesn’t want a queen’s life."
"But choose a new type of queen and they’ll see how a king should be treated: with unconditional love, respect, and loyalty."
"Stories go wrong when people think their own happiness is bigger than anyone else’s."
"Even fairy tales have limits, Hort. Both of us have to let go. Let Sophie and Tedros live their Ever After. For your own happiness."
"The world was barreling to an end and the prince who could save it with a kiss was nowhere to be found."
"With the prince gone, she suddenly remembered she was a full human being without him."