Top 100 Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes
#1. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
Kelley Armstrong
#2. When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
Greg Rucka
#3. I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
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#4. He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
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#8. And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.
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#10. At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil.
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#11. It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there."
Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise!
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#13. Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
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#14. He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
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#15. Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.
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#17. I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
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#20. God is one and there is but one God - all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand ...
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#21. Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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#22. They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man
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#23. Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.
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#24. I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.
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#25. 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!
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#26. The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Lancelet's skin was so soft - she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's.
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#31. And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...
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#35. There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
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#36. Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.
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#37. If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.
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#41. Beat me instead," she cried, "It's not Darren's fault! I lost her, I let
her go
I cannot be free, I must be chained inside a house and
robbed of my hawk, you damned tyrant, but I will not have Preciosa
chained too!
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#42. Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
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#45. 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.
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#48. My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
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#50. ...it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves...
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#55. The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting!
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#56. I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
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#57. Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?
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#58. 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.
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#59. As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all?
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#61. Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east.
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#62. Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul?
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#63. A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
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#64. She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.
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#65. And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
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#66. Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you"
"If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath.
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#67. And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God's goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh ...
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#69. The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.
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#70. A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.
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#73. The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.
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#74. For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.
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#76. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.
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#78. For ever the world of Fairy drifts further from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world.
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#81. I love her, Rajasta, I love her too much to hurt her; and I can give her nothing! No vows, no hope of real happiness, only sorrow and pain and, perhaps, shame ...
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#83. If you truly believe that, my lady and queen, then for you it is truth: all the Gods are One God and all the Goddesses one Goddess. But would you presume to declare one truth for all of mankind throughout the world?
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#84. If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.
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#85. Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
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#86. But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine
yes, mine and not yours. I am not Roman, to let some man tell me what I may do with what the Goddess gave me
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#87. ... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones
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#88. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
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#89. If he knew, if he was told in so many words, he would have to do the conventional thing, he would have to express the conventional shock and horror. But knowing without analyzing, knowing in a place that went deeper than words, he could see it, know it, accept it.
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#91. There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
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#92. If I, who am rhu'ad, do not break the laws," she said, "then no one will ever dare to break them, and our planet will stagnate in dead traditions.
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#93. And it seemed to her that time stopped, that her body melted into his as if she were without nerve or bone or will, and his kiss was like fire and ice on her lips.
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#94. Gave so much time and thought to units - the Nation, the Race, Humanity-as-a-Whole - that it laid terrific burdens on humanity as individuals. To benefit the monster of Humanity-as-a-Whole, they even fought wars - which killed off humanity, individually, at a fearful rate.
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#95. Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ...
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#96. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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#97. If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it ...
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#99. 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.
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#100. Grateful love and thanks. And last but not least to my elder son, David, for his careful preparation of the final manuscript.
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