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.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

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.

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 the needs of your mind, choose for you.

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

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.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.