Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradleywas an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While some critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse & rape by two of her children, Mark & Moira Greyland, among many others. Zimmer Bradley's first child, David R...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 June 1930
CountryUnited States of America
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.
My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.
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.
Love is the only prayer I know.
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
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.
I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
Without a dream to light your way, the word is a very dark place.
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
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.