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“Then Arthur said to Galahad,
"Sir, you are not alone.
I too stood, with my life unmade,
and set my hand to hilt and blade.
I know the burden on us laid,
who draw a sword from stone!”
― Malcolm Guite, Galahad and the Grail

“...and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imaginations can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedral, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive.”
― T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

“Vakul is also a common Kwen word for a valley or depression where a river might flow. There is no river there now, but there might have been once, and there might be one day again. All living creatures have in them some good, some bad, and a lot of vakul. But vakul can’t be all you are if you expect the love of your gods and fellow mortals. A ravine won’t water crops or quench the dying. At some point, there has to be a river, or what good can you really claim? If the man of good intentions never manifests a river, only calamity, should he not go to hell?”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I confess I am what you would call a sorceress, but no magic is evil. It is what the wielder makes it.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree