"On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king."

-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Daughter Quotes #Queens Quotes #Kings Quotes

“I let it fall, my heart And as it fell, you rose to claim it, It was dark, and I was sober, Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.”
“For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.”
“Perhaps Iâ€™m tired of waiting for something I may never find.”
“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.”
“The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.”
“I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.”
“If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.”
“I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.”

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