Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists Of Avalon Quotes
By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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...
My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.
...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.
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.
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, ” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.
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...
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.
… 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
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.
And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
