...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

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.

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

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.

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

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.