“A born king is a very rare being.”
“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
“She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.”
“Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile”
“People rarely die from love, but they are frequently born from it.”
“We don't get to choose how we're born, Miranda, and very rarely how we die; but we get to choose how we live. Life is too short to spend in dread and guilt.”