In our day, we thought that the bards would sing of us for generations to come, but we did not believe it. But in fact Arthur now occupies a higher throne than he ever did when he was alive. The fragments of all our lives have been put together to form legend. Camelot has become the nursery of Britain: the glorious past that never was and always will be.

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.