“Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”

—  William Goldman, book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018

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