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Lily: Poaching is against the law.
Thorn: And starving isn’t.

Elizaveta Naryshkina: How splendid his reign could have been if only [Tsar Nicholas II] had understood the needs of an era!

Rappaport: Prime Minister Rodzianko continued to urge that the children be got away to safety, but Alexandra was adamant: ‘We’re not going anywhere. Let them do what they will...’
Me: Alas, Alexandra couldn’t read the writing on the wall. Measles or no, she should have had the children smuggled out of the country even if she chose to stay behind to be martyred with her husband.

It’s a shame that the Romanovs didn’t convince one of their daughters to marry Prince Carol of Romania. Then she, at least, would have survived the revolution.

Rappaport: [Tsar Nicholas II was] a man who, far from the blood-thirsty image projected, was kindly, sincere, and modest, a devoted husband and loving father, but who, as tsar, was utterly ill equipped emotionally and morally for the task with which accident of birth had charged him.
Me: Ain’t that the truth. More’s the pity.

Perdita: You meddle with fate at your own (and everyone else’s) peril.

Narrator: And when all that you have done comes to nothing, what do you do? Do you give up and accept the fate of the story?

Narrator: And when all that you have done comes to nothing, what do you do? Do you give up and accept the fate of the story?

Encanzo: My so-called weakness stems from the fact that I have not forgotten what we Wizards stand for. The Wizard way of life is about creation, not war and destruction.

Encanzo: You Warriors have this obsession with physical violence... Can’t you see that knitting is a more positive and practical skill than chopping people’s heads off or are you too busy burning down forests to think straight?

The Tatzelwurm: I am going to offer you some extremely valuable advice that you do not know you need. It is not enough to be good. You also have to be strong. You have to endure.

The Tatzelwurm: Destiny generally knows its business. And it's up to us to work out exactly what that business is.