Chivalric Romance Quotes

“Fostering magical thinking, the chivalric romance yields a space-time in which the marvelous co-exists at all times with mundane routines. Its magic is able to envision the invisible, to endow the amorphous with palpable shape, and to place illusion and reality on the same level. Concurrently, the romance reminds us that it is essential to value the magical realm’s irreducible alterity and inscrutability, rather than attempt to tame it by rationalizing its wonders.”
― Dani Cavallaro, The Chivalric Romance and the Essence of Fiction

“[Under] David I (1124-530, Scotland undoubtedly had a place in the comity of catholic realms. It restored a regular ecclesiastical organisation, received the new religious orders which revived the spiritual life of the Church, and accepted French secular culture, which, allowing for local variants, dominated the ruling classes west of the Elbe including much of Britain, where not only knighthood and chivalry, but also French language and Romance literature inspired, even pervaded, the culture of the ruling elite.”
― A.A.M. Duncan, Why Scottish History Matters

“O naturall contention! worthy of admiration, that a little fish should be able to doe more then a great ship, with all the force and strength of the winds.”
― Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina

“I wonder if it would be terribly inappropriate for me to hold on to you. "I think you'd better, anyway.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless