Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

Loving someone meant letting them be who they were, not caging them

That's what the court needs-a happy king, a king who can't stop dreaming of being lost in someone who wants to be just as lost. Tell me you'll let me get lost in you.

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.