173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

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.

...if there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done—who’s to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.

Micail nodded, looking down at her. “You seem so fragile, but sometimes I think you are the strongest of us all . . .” “I am strong because we are together,” Tiriki murmured as he left her.<...>Were we disembodied spirits, she thought warmly, still I would know him.<...>The bond between them went beyond the senses of the flesh.

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

Love is the only prayer I know.

It seemed to me always that there should be some tie stronger than that between man and women, though the Christians seem to think that is enough-what is it they say, it is better to marry than to burn? Well, I did not burn, for I slaked the fire, and when I had spent it, the fire went out, and yet I feel that there could be a burning which would not spend itself so quickly, and it should be such a one I could marry.

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 . . .