173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

His head was heavy on my breast, heavy as the child in my own childish arms, heavy as the King Stag who had come to me in triumph. Morgaine, my mother had called impatiently, take care of the baby... and all my life I had borne him with me.

But if men do not believe in more than one life,” Igraine protested, shaken, “how will they avoid despair? What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?

No man or woman can live another’s fate.

Think not that you can direct my steps! If you come with me – you follow!

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

For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

A king must protect his people from outsiders, from invaders, and lead his people to defend themselves – a king must be the first to thrust himself between the land and all danger, just as a farmer stands to defend his fields from any robber. But it is not his duty to dictate to them what their innermost hearts may do.

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.

Let them go!” interrupted Viviane angrily. “I still think we should let them go! I do not want to live in a world of Christians, who deny the Mother –.