I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...