It took a special kind of madness to try to be a pirate and a good man at the same time.
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.
I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.
Don't try to tell me it's because I'm scared, because the truth is the only time I'm not terrified is when I'm with you.
Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.
I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.
It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
