If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!