How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

And the prince who had once been a bear pulled close the girl who had once had no name, and kissed her.

Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow. Never look back, never forget.

Never look back, never forget.

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

Galen!" The crown princess flung herself into her husband's arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Number was the substance of all things.

New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

Whatever you focus on you're going to feel.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.