“Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.”
Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer
Some Hope, Chapter 8
“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”
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