Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.