”She’s my sister’s best friend.”
”Yeah, that’s the hardest place to be. Between a friend and, uh, friendlier.”
”Do you wear contact lenses?”
”Well, I have them, but I don’t like to wear them.”
[breaks spectacles] “Now you do.”
”You broke my glasses.”
”You broke my brush.”
”I love your eyebrows. We'll call them Frida and Kahlo. If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx, their child would have your eyebrows.”
”Uh, well, do you have any change?”
”No. It’s not appropriate for royalty to jingle.”
”So.. Did my father always want to be a prince?”
”Oh yes. Except once about 15 years ago. He seriously considered renouncing his title. Because he met a lovely artist who showed him wonderful things about how life could be, how he could be.”
”But?”
”But he had a decision to make. Nobody could make it for him. Not I, though many people thought I did, or anybody else.”
”Your father realised that the love he could have for one person, or even two, could not make him forget the love he felt for his country and its people. It was the hardest thing he ever had to do.”
”People think princesses are supposed to wear tiaras, marry the prince, always look pretty and live happily ever after. But it’s so much more than that.”
”Amelia, courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on, you’ll be travelling the road between who you think you are and who you think you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make that journey.”