Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.