“He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country.”

“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“His seed will issue kings, but he will never reignFor she would be Queen of Lumatere.But he would be king to her.”

“Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.”

“There was once a country ruled by a king and queen who loved different things. The king loved cats and the queen loved birds. And just as cats and birds never get along, so it was that the king and queen never got along. And everyone in the country suffered as a result. In short, it was not a very pretty situation.”