Katharine McGee

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

The Nina who’d spent years pining after Jefferson—who’d contorted herself into someone she didn’t recognize, hoping to win acceptance as his girlfriend—was gone. And this new, fiercer Nina knew better than to get her heart broken by anyone. Even a prince.

“It’s just…it’s easier to believe in things, believe in people, when you read about them in books. They’re so much safer when they’re fictional. The real-life ones…I’m still not sure how to handle them.”

Everything I learned about etiquette, I learned from Jane Austen.

Daphne isn’t my best friend, Nina wanted to protest, but there were free tacos on the line, so she said nothing