Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
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… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there." Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“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… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth; that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share
I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
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… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine --… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“ They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
