After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.”“ You do have that effect on people.

Darynda Jones
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This quote from the movie The Princess Bride is a play on a line from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the play, Hamlet tells his friend Horatio that he has killed his father, King Hamlet. Horatio is skeptical of Hamlet’s claim, so Hamlet says, “Get thee to a nunnery.” This line from The Princess Bride is a play on the same idea. The fact that Buttercup never even considers going to a nunnery shows that she really doesn’t see herself as someone who deserves the title of “good girl.” She sees herself as a troublemaker with too much fun to waste her life in a convent.

These are all things that make her attractive to Prince Humperdinck and Prince Humperdinck finds her attractive because of those qualities. Those qualities also make it all but impossible for her to ever settle down with Prince Humperdinck because Prince Humperdinck is every bit as stubborn as she is.

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