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“Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.”
“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...”
“Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.”
“Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty. Wherefore, may God grant His Grace unto you all that ye too may likewise succeed in your underta...”
“It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a ...”
“... the more I seek, the less I find.”
“With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he coul...”
“He cupped her head with both hands. Youre full of your own kind of magic, and its much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.”
“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. Unfortunately, he said as gently as he knew how, it would appear so.”
“Just when I was coping with the idea that Id necked with a werewolf, she muttered. Just when I was beginning to flirt with the idea of possibly possibly inviting sex with a werewolf. Im trying to i...”
“Lifting his head, he whispered against her wet, throbbing lips, Too much? Wasnt that sweet, Consider even. But oh, hell no. She gasped, Not enough.”
“Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.”
“Another revolution around the sun and I was still no closer to getting home. Laying on my lumpy mattress in my blood-stained shirt and dusty jeans with my arm over my eyes, I tried to imagine I was...”
“My body felt heavy. It grew harder to thrash around, to move at all. I opened my mouth to scream again but no sound came from my blood-soaked lips. My eyelids fluttered closed and the world disappe...”
“Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.”
“Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where...”
