Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
Ayn RandTags: talent meritocracy nobility ability aristocracy birthright
You're not like other Wasps."
"Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score."
"A few," Salma allowed.
"Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken.
Tags: war darkness ignorance hurt birthright aagen aagen-s-joy grief-in-chains here-comes-the-sun kinden salme-dien wasp-empire wine-bowl
Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and Michael can go.” Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn’t let him die.
Willow CrossTags: death vampire michael birthright liz the-dark-gifts
In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time.
Nahoko UehashiTags: change privilege birthright fall-from-grace
the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere, at anytime" -
Charlene CostanzoTags: children birth birthright
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