“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
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“When I was your age, television was called books.”
“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
“I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several h...”
“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I...”
“Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?”
“I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong....”
“Do you love me, Westley? Is that it?’ He couldn’t believe it. ‘Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. If your love were—‘ ‘I don’t und...”
“And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. ‘I can care for my...”
“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
“We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”
“The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help yo...”
“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”
“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than deat...”