I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?
The best calumnies are spiced with truth.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.