Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?

I don't know you, ma'am, and apparently I'm expected to die for you

You know nothing at all about men like me

This is why so many knights have died. This is why troy fell, for a woman like this

For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later I, nor anyone else…

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There's no sinner like a young saint.