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  • A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

    Pain   Pleasure   Babe  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.273, Ballantine Books
  • The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.60, Ballantine Books
  • I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

    Brother   Fall   Men  
  • All gods are one god.

  • I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

    Lasts   Left  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2007). “Lady of Avalon”, p.454, Penguin
  • By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

    Men   Thinking   Avalon  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.9, Ballantine Books
  • Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.

    Order   Done   Difficult  
  • Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

    Faults   Speak   Burden  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton (2011). “Black Trillium”, p.32, Hachette UK
  • If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

    Dog   Deaf   Ifs  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “Heritage and Exile”, p.56, Penguin
  • And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

    Summer   Wind   Sea  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books
  • One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

  • Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

    Life   Lying   Flower  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.769, Ballantine Books
  • I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

    Cousin   Warrior   Taste  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.739, Ballantine Books
  • Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

    Reality   Men   Saws  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.889, Ballantine Books
  • The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

    "The Mists of Avalon".
  • A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

    Children   Bears  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2008). “Priestess of Avalon”, p.152, Penguin
  • I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

  • Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

    Dust  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.530, Ballantine Books
  • Never name the well from which you will not drink.

    Names   Avalon   Drink  
  • If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

    Machines   Turns   Ifs  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Forbidden Circle”, p.175, Penguin
  • I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

    Elude   Knows  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2013). “Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon: Avalon”, p.9, Hachette UK
  • Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

    Writing   Mind   Fiction  
    "The Faces of Science Fiction". Book by Patti Perret, 1984.
  • Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.255, Ballantine Books
  • From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

  • I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

    Love   Regret   True Joy  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.74, Ballantine Books
  • Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

    Fear   Mind   Needs  
    Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.39, Penguin
  • Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.

    Real   Men   Tears  
  • Love is the only prayer I know.

    Prayer   Love Is   Avalon  
    "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.
  • I never thought that I was very intelligent

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