"There is a kinship among people who "get" The Princess Bride that isn't about the movie per se but about sharing a particular outlook on the world, one that does not tolerate bullshit, mundanity, or obviousness. People who "get" The Princess Bride "get" irony and sarcasm. People who "get" The Princess Bride do not suffer fools gladly. People who "get" The Princess Bride long for swashbuckling romantic adventure while simultaneously acknowledging the impossibility of such a dream."

"The Princess Bride? This one leaves them all behind. It's the ultimate love story for die-hard cynics who don't believe in love stories. It's selling the idea of true love, sure, but it knows it better than to tell us other but that life is pain in the process."

"So The Princess Bride is also a meditation and a mantra for us cynics, a reminder that it's okay to be gloomy and downbeat because, sure, the world definitely deserves to be approached from such an angle... as long as we don't let ourselves give up on the hope of and the search for the one thing, no matter how rare, that makes this painful life worth living."

"People who "get" The Princess Bride are of that special breed of cynics who are thwarted idealists."