You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.