There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.

His last thought was that it hadn't been stupidity that had allowed his son to enchant him so easily with words. It had been love.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.