The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King # 1-4)(Annotated)

by T.H. White

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

Yet Guenever could not search for the Grail. She could oot vanish into the English forest for a year's adventure with the spear. It was her part to sit at home, though passionate, though real and hungry in her fierce and tender heart. For her there were no recognized diversions except what is comparable to the ladies' bridge party of today. She could hawk with a merlin, or play blind man's buff, or pince-merille. These were the amusements of grown-up women in her time. But the great hawks, the hounds, heraldry, tournaments—these were for Lancelot. For her, unless she felt like a little spinning or embroidery, there was no occupation—except Lancelot.

Do you think you can stop the consequences of a bad action, by doing good ones afterwards?

Actions of any sort in one generation might have incalculable consequences in another, so that merely to sneeze was a pebble thrown into a pond, whose circles might lap the furthest shores.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God.