When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood. - Orson Scott Card

I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

“I don’t plan to die for any cause,” said Jim Bowie. “Nor any man, excepting only myself. I know that ain’t noble, but it prolongs my days, which is philosophy enough for me.”