“You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.”

—  Tad Williams

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 17, “Bonfire Night” (p. 523).

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