#cinder

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#betrayal #cinder #love #marissa-meyer #prince-kai

She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood. And yet he was still here, with her. "I'm fine," she said. "Go away. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#kai #men

He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately. Should never think about him again, except maybe as a client - and her prince. And yet, the memory of his fingers against her skin refused to fade. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#marissa-meyer #fantasy

I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun! ↗

— Maria Bello

#dress #fashion #fun #girl #great

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals. ↗

— Zac Efron

#cinderella #disney #fundamentals #head #humming

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#audience #body #cinderella #coach #director

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story. ↗

— Peach-Pit

#cinderella #fairy-tales #inspirational #main-character #sleeping-beauty

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella. ↗

— June Foray

#cat #cinderella #disney #heard #me

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#cinderella #comedy #fun #i #much

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#arts #cinderella #dance #quite #ragged