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You should always look out for your friends and your family. Because no one is looking out for us.
“Don’t let life’s unfairness, don’t let how poor you are decide who you are. You choose who you will be, Aladdin. Will you be a hero who looks after the weak and powerless? Will you be a thief? Will you be a beggar—or worse? It’s up to you, not the things—or people—around you. You can choose to be something more.”
Nothing would ever change until the sultan—or someone—woke up and saw how his people were suffering.
He wasn’t exactly sure how kissing would help her. He just knew it was going to happen or he was going to die.
I know what it’s like to be considered worthless—somebody else’s property.
“There’s another way. You don’t have to choose this life. You could be something more.”
“when anyone can reach up and take as much as they want—gold stops having value. Like sand.”
In a different time, he could almost see the two of them becoming friends.
Was it possible to be friends with someone you didn’t agree with?
They shall go to school—all of the children, no matter what religion, no matter what class. Boys and girls. They shall be given every opportunity to do whatever they wish when they grow up and not be forced to thieve and beg.
“‘Magic is only as great as the mind controlling it,’”
