#prince

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#civilizing #frogs #makes #princes #process

He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red hair: snow and fire, like something from an old tale. The book I had noticed earlier was on the bench beside him, its covers shut. Around Anluan's feet and in the birdbath, small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny. He did not seem to notice them. As for me, I found it difficult to take my eyes from him. There was an odd beauty in his isolation and his sadness, like that of a forlorn prince ensorcelled by a wicked enchantress, or a traveller lost forever in a world far from home. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#love #prince #beauty

The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#creation #creator #higherlife #loveworld #risk-it-be-dfferent

But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she excused herself to go to bed, she left without saying good night. After that, the princesses in her stories were always beautiful. Always. ↗

— Kelly Barnhill

#fairy-tales #princesses #storytelling #beauty

You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #beauty

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means?" What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!"Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days, ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#beauty #flauvic-acting #good #princess-elestra #beauty

If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself? ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#princess-elestra #beauty

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it? ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#beauty #flauvic #life #princess-elestra #beauty

…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#lost-opportunity #princess #sleeping-beauty #too-hard #beauty

Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that is better than any other. If you can kill me, the manner hardly bears consideration. You want to kill your own father, and you think it will make your sleep easier for the next seventy years if you can say you did it honorably. But your honor is blackened by patricide, and no amount of high-sounding formalities will make it white again. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#kings #murder #patricide #princes #death