You Are So Brave & So Quiet I Forget That You Are Suffering | Earnest Hemingway

you are so brave & so quiet — I forget that you are suffering | earnest hemingway

“I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.”

— Beau Taplin

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 (a collection of prompts from the 2001 movie The Princess Diaries. Feel free to adjust phrasing and gendered terms as necessary.)

"Shut up!"

"Wait for me!"

"Talk to me!"

"Oh, for the love of God!"

"I can't do this, I'm a girl."

"What am I? A duck?"

"All in a day's work."

"I'm not so afraid anymore."

"This is getting us nowhere!"

"I beg your pardon, 'Shut up'?"

"You can't run from everything!"

"OK, I look like an asparagus."

"You are the coolest Queen ever."

"My dad thinks I'm a princess!"

"Now, what did you want to tell me?"

"This is as good as it’s going to get."

"That was a question on Jeopardy."

"You're not very good at lying, [name]."

"Courage is not the absence of fear."

“It’s not appropriate for royalty to jingle.”

"I just hope if he kisses me… my foot pops."

"No, everything's perfect. Perfect. It's wonderful."

"Oh, this is a nightmare! I'm going back to bed!"

“The Queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early.”

"My expectation in life is to be invisible, and I'm good at it."

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"You are so lucky you don't know who your parents are."

"So the future of your country is in the hands of a 15-year-old?"

"I have never put on pantihose before, but it sounds dangerous."

Iford Manor Gardens, Iford, England by Stacy Cartledge