Quotes from William Goldman

live your life its pain its pleasure leave no path untaken

The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

This was not before doctors, but in Turkey they hadn't gotten around to claiming the bone business yet; milkmen still were in charge of bones, the logic being that since milk was so good for bones, who would know more about borken bones than a milkman?

You always know what to do, you always know exactly what to do, you always do exactly what's right for you, and the rest of the world can go hang..

When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.

We have more than hope," Buttercup said. "There is true love.

Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other.

Pienso que lo más asombroso de llorar es que cuando empiezas, crees que no pararás nunca, pero en realidad no dura ni siquiera la mitad de lo que habías creído.

Wide brimmed and narrow, some tall, some not, some fancy, some colorful, some plaid, some plain. She doted on changing hats at every opportunity. When she met the Prince, she was wearing one hat, when he asked her for a stroll, she excused herself, shortly to return wearing another, equally flattering.

Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours? Not so much wonderful as perfect, she replied. Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side.

she was, through no real faults of her own, perfect.

I understand completely what you are trying to do, the Sicilian said finally, and I want it quite clear that I resent your behavior. You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Two things happened: (1) The door, quite clearly, locked. (2) Out went the candles on the high walls. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED! Inigo screamed. I'M NOT, I'M NOT! Fezzik screamed.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. Or the sixth.

In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it.

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die

A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said, 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.' ~ Westley

The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier.

Buttercup could picture Westley rounding the final corner. There were four guards outside waiting. At ten seconds per guard, she began figuring, but then stopped, because numbers had always been her enemy. She looked down at her hands. Oh, I hope he still thinks I'm pretty, she thought; those nightmares took a lot out of me.

I can live without love." And with that she left Westley alone.

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]