Yvette

“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.”
― T.H. White

“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King