Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

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.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

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

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.