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.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

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.

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.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.