Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.
There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.
When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.
No one who wears a crown is ever safe.