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• But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

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  My Truth

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Cousin, Hobbies, Degrees

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• Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.

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  Real, Trouble, Kinder

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• I never thought that I was very intelligent

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  Intelligent

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• 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 market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.

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  Heart, Fire, Rome

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (1995). “The Forest House”, p.424, Penguin

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• I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

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  Kids, Talking, Trying

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• 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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  Mother, Light, Giving

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2007). “Lady of Avalon”, p.428, Penguin

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• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

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  Sex, Men, Emotional

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• 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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  Cousin, Warrior, Taste

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.739, Ballantine Books

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• I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

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  Elude, Knows

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2013). “Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon: Avalon”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Order, Done, Difficult

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• 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.

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  Summer, Wind, Sea

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

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  Party, People, Bed

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• 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.

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  Real, Men, Tears

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Secret

  "The Mists of Avalon".

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