Mordred Quotes

“What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…”
― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

“No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset

“Before the boy who lived, there was another story. One of a monster inside of a man. One of a hero inside of a child. One of a traitor inside of a friend. And one of an angel inside of a demon.”
― Mordred, Forever Alive

“I want you too, so much,” she whispered.
He murmured in her ear, “Then take me.”
― Thea Harrison, Spellbinder

“Arthur was carved from the same stuff as Camelot - regal and majestic. But Mordred belonged out here, with her.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“But the past holds her secrets dear, and try as I may, I cannot coax them out of her.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“Mordred ever seemed to burn.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“They are not always green, your eyes. Sometimes they are blue like the sky. In Camelot, they are gray like the stones. I like green and blue better.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“Aye, we all know your fondness for apples, brother.”
― Phyllis Ann Karr, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere

“You are a different person when you are outside," Mordred said.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“She took the flower. "Thank you," she whispered. Relief and gratitude swelled in her. Mordred was on her side. Guinevere tucked the flower beneath her dress, against her heart, where it would be both secret and safe.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.”
― Thea Harrison, Spellbinder

“I don’t know,” Scot offered. “Being a hero feels fair and fine to me.”
Mordred turned to him and looked him up and down under his dark brows. “That’s because you’re young, inexperienced, and living in the sunrise glow of a moment of glory. Enjoy it, fellow, while it lasts. You’ve accomplished something that you’ve longed to achieve and felt was an impossible dream since childhood. You’ll have the best half-year of your life (if you’re lucky) and then the glory of this moment will set beyond your horizon. You’ll be left empty, questioning everything, and wishing for a challenge to equal the old. It is the central cycle of every ambitious man’s life—it is the reason he seeks and achieves glory, and the reason that one day his own glory grows too heavy and crushes him, especially as he gets too old to bear its weight.”
― Scott Davis Howard, Three Days and Two Knights

“I am forever loving things that cannot love me back.”
― Kiersten White, The Excalibur Curse

“She wanted to laugh at how similar Arthur and Mordred were. They made promises, but really they were both asking her to wait until the guilt faded and the pain lessened and she could live with what she was. She knew that was exactly what would happen, and it terrified her.”
― Kiersten White, The Excalibur Curse