In his own country, Death can be kind.

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.