P 16 Quotes

“We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.”
― Csikszentmihaly

“Listen to me Igraine,' said the Merlin. 'I fathered you, though that gives me no rights; it is the blood of the Lady which confers royalty, and you are of the oldest royal blood, descended from daughter to daughter of the Holy Isle.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“A daughter of the Lady belonged only to the Goddess, and to that man into whose hands the Lady chose to give its care - most often her brother, only very rarely the man who had begotten it.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Reading a novel, he supposes, is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at this particular game. (Though he sometimes wishes choose-your-own-adventure novels would come back into fashion.)”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea