"Just Ella" Quotes

I was not a rebel. I had no desire to fight, to change the world, to take up a cause.

I wanted to be happy, to have fun, to live the good life. And I was learning to be good at it.

It was like a game, the way we danced around each other, the way we circled and feinted.

Sometimes I wondered if Ella was just a role I played, a mask I wore to hide the real me.

It was as if the glass slipper had shattered, and the pieces had embedded themselves into my flesh.

I wanted to be loved, but I didn't want to be owned.

I didn't want to be a princess anymore. I didn't want to be a queen. I just wanted to be me.

I had to learn to be strong, to be brave, to be fierce. I had to learn to be the hero of my own story.

It was like I had been seeing the world in shades of gray, and now suddenly I could see in color.

I had to find my own way, create my own destiny. I had to be the one to rescue myself.