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“Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.”
“Look out your window on a morning in spring, ten or twenty years hence, and perhaps you'll see me coming.”
“I mean, he said, that by your own showing, the greatest threat to heaven comes from within the ranks of the angels themselves. Before you can prove to me that heroes can defeat villains with nothin...”
“Blanchefleur felt a quick rush of affection for her. When the world frowned, Branwen went on smiling. There was a heart of steel under all that froth and bubble.”
“In the dim sunset Perceval looked the glade over and said, Does your lady wife think so little of sending you out on deadly errands? Sir Gareth unstrapped the blanket from behind his saddle. Its ou...”
“Perceval said to the Grail Knight: Will you break a spear with me this day? He did not expect Galahad to look down on him from Lancelots immense height and say, gently, as if he knew it must disapp...”
“How you must hate Logres, she said in a dry mouth. Hate Logres? He leaned back in his chair, shaking his head. There is an anger that is deserved, Blanche. Tell me. Look me in the eye, if you can, ...”
“That night she dreamed about the King again. She stood in a riverside meadow between greenwood and castle. Overhead the sun shone gilt in a sky like powdered lapis and struck golden sparks from the...”
“She slipped off the lid and took out a little hourglass hanging on a silver pivot from a black ribbon, its belly full of twinkling black sand. "Oh, it's beautiful!" "You like it." Her guardian, the...”
“I have fled from the wilderness fasting, with woe and unflagging travail,I have sought for the light on the mountain, and skirted the devilish dale. I have laid my mouth in the dust, and begged the...”
“It was like listening to the universe in motion. Planets spinning on their appointed courses, the lives of men intersecting and parting, the unimaginable harmony of the human body itself in hierarc...”
“There was carpet under Blanchefleurs feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrilsperfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than me...”
“He grinned. Do not fear. I am here to serve you, as I promised. Despite the fit of schoolgirl giggles that had seized her in Carbonek when he first proposed to be her knight, his assurance annoyed ...”
“A knight will give a lady a ring from his hand and take a kiss from her lips, when he wishes to love her and serve her all his days," she recited, as she had when he was small. She pulled the ring ...”
“Oh, Perceval, a falcon is born to hunt, and so are you. One day you will hunt indeed--but not yet." "Why? Am I not ready?"She looked at him sadly and said, "Give me a little longer.”
“Sir Ector looked into the fire, fidgeting with something in his pocket. "I have something for you," he said at last. "It was your mother's." And he drew out the thing in his pocket and held it up t...”
“I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could...”
“Then this is for you," Galahad said, and drew a knife from the pouch at his belt. It was an odd little thing, T-hilted and small enough to fit into a woman's hand. Its translucent blade, only an in...”
“Gawain laid his hand on his sons shoulder. Sir Perceval, when the priest reads the lesson, he says that he who would save his life must lose it. Good words for any man, for there are moments when c...”
