Quotes
"She had heard her sister say it often enough when Viviane still believed Igraine would become priestess of the Mysteries: If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 2, p. 6)
"It is written in the stars, child, that only a king who comes of two royalties, one royalty of the Tribes who follow the Goddess, and one royalty of those who look to Rome, will heal our land of all this strife." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 2, p. 6)
"And then, in one great act of Druid magic, to protect the last precious refuge of their school, they had made the last great change in the world; that change which removed the Island of Avalon from the world of mankind. Now it lay hidden in the mist which concealed it, except from those initiates who had been schooled there or those who were shown the secret ways through the Lake." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 9, p. 14)
"Ah - seven times the Wheel, the Wheel with thirteen spokes, has turned about in the sky...seven times the Mother has given birth to her dark son..." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 14, p. 67)
"I died as a warrior would die; the treaty troops broke their faith again, and my armies could not stand against them until I had myself carried, to show myself on the field. Then they rallied, but Aesc, the Saxons' chief - I will not grant that wild savage the name of king - broke through, and slew three of my guard; and I killed him before his bodyguard could kill me. But we won that battle. The next battle will be for my son. If he comes to the throne." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 17, p. 93)
"...there were times when it seemed that needle and thread moved through her own flesh or through the flesh of the land, piercing earth and sky and her own blood and body... sign upon sign and symbol upon symbol, each marked with her blood and with the water of the Holy Well." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 18, p. 98)
"Choose whether or no you will take this sword, or refuse it and rule in your own name, despising the help of the Old Gods." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 18, p. 04)
"For all the peoples of Britain, he had said, my sword for your protection, and my hand for justice." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 19, p. 14)
"Our lord may fight like Pendragon himself on the field of battle, but this morning when he is being readied for his bride, he seems no more than the boy he is!" (The High Queen, Chapter 5, p. 77)
"Kevin's voice was respectful but also amused. "There is an old saying in the wisdom of the Druids... beauty is not all in a fair face, but lies within. Morgaine is indeed very beautiful, Queen Morgause, though her beauty resembles yours no more than a willow tree resembles a daffodil." (The King Stag, Chapter 1, p. 66)
"The memory of that moment of ecstasy and revelation, when she had borne the Grail in the form of the Goddess, would remain with her until her death; and of those who had experienced the vision, whatever they might have seen, none of their lives would ever be the same." (The Prisoner of the Oak, Chapter 11, p. 00)
"It is written in the stars, child, that only a king who comes of two royalties, one royalty of the Tribes who follow the Goddess, and one royalty of those who look to Rome, will heal our land of all this strife." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 2, p. 6)
"And then, in one great act of Druid magic, to protect the last precious refuge of their school, they had made the last great change in the world; that change which removed the Island of Avalon from the world of mankind. Now it lay hidden in the mist which concealed it, except from those initiates who had been schooled there or those who were shown the secret ways through the Lake." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 9, p. 14)
"Ah - seven times the Wheel, the Wheel with thirteen spokes, has turned about in the sky...seven times the Mother has given birth to her dark son..." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 14, p. 67)
"I died as a warrior would die; the treaty troops broke their faith again, and my armies could not stand against them until I had myself carried, to show myself on the field. Then they rallied, but Aesc, the Saxons' chief - I will not grant that wild savage the name of king - broke through, and slew three of my guard; and I killed him before his bodyguard could kill me. But we won that battle. The next battle will be for my son. If he comes to the throne." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 17, p. 93)
"...there were times when it seemed that needle and thread moved through her own flesh or through the flesh of the land, piercing earth and sky and her own blood and body... sign upon sign and symbol upon symbol, each marked with her blood and with the water of the Holy Well." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 18, p. 98)
"Choose whether or no you will take this sword, or refuse it and rule in your own name, despising the help of the Old Gods." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 18, p. 04)
"For all the peoples of Britain, he had said, my sword for your protection, and my hand for justice." (Mistress of Magic, Chapter 19, p. 14)
"Our lord may fight like Pendragon himself on the field of battle, but this morning when he is being readied for his bride, he seems no more than the boy he is!" (The High Queen, Chapter 5, p. 77)
"Kevin's voice was respectful but also amused. "There is an old saying in the wisdom of the Druids... beauty is not all in a fair face, but lies within. Morgaine is indeed very beautiful, Queen Morgause, though her beauty resembles yours no more than a willow tree resembles a daffodil." (The King Stag, Chapter 1, p. 66)
"The memory of that moment of ecstasy and revelation, when she had borne the Grail in the form of the Goddess, would remain with her until her death; and of those who had experienced the vision, whatever they might have seen, none of their lives would ever be the same." (The Prisoner of the Oak, Chapter 11, p. 00)