mists of avalon → sentence meme
This is part two of a many part series of lines and dialogue taken from The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Feel free to change pronouns or anything else to better suit your needs.
I have had dreams and sorceries enough, I want no more of them in my life.
I cannot meddle with what the fates have decreed.
I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
If your priests are right, I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath.
Believe that I love you, for a time will come when you will hate me as much as you love me now
Do you not hate and fear me?
I fear you, but I could never hate you.
I would rather have a loving mother than a stern Goddess whose every breath bids men live and die at her will.
With beasts you always know precisely what they think, for they cannot lie, nor pretend to be other than they are.
I have lived in a world where men do not wait for a woman’s bidding to go and come.
Oh yes, I am real, as real as the ground under your feet or the birds in that tree.
Most women I know would think themselves too modest to show their bare legs.
And you, you have the Sight? You can see beyond the veil that separates the worlds?
But it seems to me no work for a man, to skulk here in safety when others outside must suffer.
The world outside is filled with strife, and I came here for a day or two of peace; will you not give it to me?
You are a child of the Goddess, do you know nothing of her Mysteries?
You are like the Goddess of this place.
I feel as if I had been ravished into one of the old fairy forts where, they say, a hundred years can pass in a night.
And will you weep because there is no longer any reason for your life?
Have you, then, gone to the Beltane fires to serve the Goddess?
All the Gods together forbid I should trespass where the Goddess has marked you for her own.
I wish this day could last forever!
I would you were not pledged to the Goddess.
Come here, come here – let me hold you, like this – I have sworn I will not trespass.
That is the matter, child? Are you lost?
Be careful to keep to the path, or you may lose yourself in the mists again.
Be sure I have never found any man who meant more to me than necessity, or duty, or a night’s pleasure.
Last night you were the Goddess, but I wake and find you are a woman.
And you are not the God, but a man?
I think I have had enough of being a God, and besides, it seems to me that it is presumptuous for a man of flesh and blood.
Perhaps there is a time to be Goddess and God, and a time to be no more than flesh and blood.
I was afraid of you last night. I thought you the Goddess, all larger than life…and you are such a tiny little thing!
Do you think the Goddess will be angry with me if I like the woman better?
The Goddess is wise in the ways of men.
Since the God and Goddess have known pleasure, should not the man and the woman know it also?
I want to say this to you – you were the very first. No matter how many women I may have, for all my life I will always remember you and love you and bless you.
No wonder it seemed to me that I have known you since before the world was made, I have always loved you.
Few men can boast of so loyal a mistress.
Oh, like all women, she will respond to whatever hand caresses her, but I think she knows that I can best make her thrill to my touch.
It sounds to me as if you have no good opinion of women who are flesh and blood.