Daniel Fogliarine

“Everyone in the room started to weep. In the bedroom Ludwig was standing near his father’s body when a page first addressed him as ‘Your Majesty’. He went suddenly pale. He had known for years that this moment would arrive, but now, when he heard himself addressed as King, he felt the full and awesome realization of his new position.”
― Christopher McIntosh, The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria

“Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
― Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis