Book review Quote by Emily Mah Tippetts

“There are better things than princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

“It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.”

— Mladen Đorđević

“In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords…

— Italo Calvino

“My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.”

— Victoria Alexander

“That’s the thing about broken princes. Not all of them have to die. If their soul is whole, they sometimes survive. Sometimes, they even…

— L.J. Shen

“Those of us who believe in princesses are often laughed at. But I believe the world needs princesses and dukes and queens and kings.…

— Beverly Bartlett

“When a random tells you that you don’t have the right to be the princess in your own life, remember you’ve built your castle…

— Ayura Ayira

“I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.”

— Christopher Moore

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It is we…

— James Salter

“It is a kingship grand that all of us build, every day of our meager lives, and it is a castle made of sand.…

— Ned Hayes