The Guinevere Deception Quotes
"There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl on the cusp of womanhood."
"They revolved around her as though she were the Earth, and they the adoring but distant sun and moon and stars."
"I cannot believe the convent had no nuns willing to travel with you."
"Brangien’s eyes were black like her hair and hinted at cleverness."
"A forest. If she were not barred on all sides by men and horses, she would hug the trees."
"The trees crowded in on either side of the road, twisting trunks and grasping roots."
"There was a village not far. We can hide there."
"She hoped desperately that Brangien, eighteen years to her own sixteen, would become a friend."
"She did not love travel, either, and I appreciate the kindness you have shown by being my companion on this long journey."
"I am afraid you will not find your new home to your liking."
"The crowd roared, shouting the name Guinevere. Over and over."
"Even with the fire crackling in defiance of night, of cold, of beasts and creeping things, the stars were waiting."
"What peace she could find was in the sway and bump of the horse beneath her."
"The rush of the river drove every other consideration away."
"They are my family. We are Camelot, and on this night, I am filled with hope for the future."
"I would lose it, I am certain! Thank you for taking care of it."
"What is it?" she asked, turning quickly away from Mordred, who was paying far too much attention. Be a painting.
"The trees were not here on our journey to retrieve you."
"My bride and I will take another boat. We wish to arrive first so we can watch the procession."
"It was the first time in months I could feel something like hope again."
"Arthur’s voice was as warm as his smile. "My bride and I will take another boat. We wish to arrive first so we can watch the procession."
"I cannot believe I had to do it. I trust that he knows what is best, but pretending to hate him, allowing my people to hate him is…wrong."
"Guinevere, when spoken by you, has power enough."
"Every fight is the only fight for him. He does not want this. He needs it."
"He is here to protect Arthur, like Mordred is. But her methods of protecting the king had to remain secret at all costs."
"It is not quite fair, is it? But it is the way of women’s bodies. You may have some pain, exhaustion, even. That could explain the last couple of days. But it will pass in under a week, and then you will be clear as a summer morning. Until the next moon."
"They are saying that? Arthur’s bed is really the topic of so much discussion?"
"The past holds her secrets dear, and try as I may, I cannot coax them out of her."
"But I do not like staying in the city. I would rather be out in the wilds, at my uncle king’s side."
"Perhaps if you dressed as a knight you could get more of his attention. Arthur is single-minded. It is what makes him a great king. And, I suspect, a challenging husband."
"If you are not a problem that needs to be solved or a battle that needs to be fought, it will be hard to keep his attention."
"I am here to protect you. However that happens."
"Keeping secrets is like a thorn beneath the skin. You can get used to it, but it is always there, festering."
"Not everything in the forest is destruction."
"Everything about herself was a lie; she should assume the same of everyone around her."
"Kindness through magic was not something she had been able to offer before."
"Being in power required sacrifices both physical and emotional."
"The overwhelming sorrow seemed precious, almost holy."
"There was good, and there was evil, but there was so much space between the two."
"Women are strongest when bearing one another's pain."
"You are doing enough simply by being here."
"I know that feeling. Arthur— He is like the sun. When he is focused on you, everything is bright and warm. Everything is possible."
"I believe in King Arthur. I believe in his story. And I want nothing more than to be part of it."
"I am the queen’s most humble and devoted servant."
"I hope he wears it. And if he does not, he is a fool."
"No, mostly because it meant she would never again have to adjust seating plans twenty-two separate times."
"I am terrified. If I fail, then it is over. My dream is dead."
"Instead of becoming the warrior who would kill a tyrant, I would become the knight who would defend a king."
"I had hoped a pretty, fragile thing like you would play into his blind need to protect everything."
"I sought to rule men. What you have awoken will destroy them."
"Every moment touching iron, every breath taken in well-ordered, stifling Camelot, every minute near Arthur and Excalibur is pain. My life is pain. What have I to fear from you?"
"Life. Predator and prey. Birth and death. Pleasure and pain. The Dark Queen was all of them."
"No knot she knew could bind the chaos of the Dark Queen."
"You are not their queen. The forest is hers. It always has been."
"Magic of violence, magic of greed. Men have done worse things with magic than fairies ever dreamed of."
"He is the bridge between the violence that was and the peace that might be."
"The tree pushed back. When she finally managed to open her eyes, she was on her back, staring up at Mordred."
"Magic is life. Excalibur is an executioner. That is why you cannot stand to be around the sword."
"Merlin has always forced his will on the world. Through magic, through violence, through deception."
"You deserve to be free. You deserve to be wild."
"We do not have to do anything unless we wish it. There are no laws, no borders, no rules here."
"Pain would not unmake her. It might reshape her, but she could accept now that whatever knots she tied around herself would always fray."
"I will not shrink from this fight, and you will not hold me back from it."
"Do you ever feel like you do not know yourself?"