Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?

I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

Living a Princely life requires that you learn to think and reason like the Prince, talk and behave like him, react like him as well.