Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Marion Zimmer BradleyAnd I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
Marion Zimmer BradleyFear 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.
Marion Zimmer BradleyLancelot: 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.
Marion Zimmer Bradley