mists of avalon → sentence meme
This is part four 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.
Do you really think me so tempting no man could resist me?
I could not sleep…how is it you ask me what I am doing here when you yourself are not in your bed?
I was restless when all around me slept - I think perhaps the moon has gotten into my blood.
I think faith is an illusion, and the truth is that we die as the beasts die, and are no more ever - like grass cut down, and last year’s snow.
You are so little - I had forgotten how little you are - I could break you with my two hands.
Sometimes it seems to me that you are one of the few things in my life which is all good.
So here we are again…it seems we have been here before…and this time I will cut off the head of any that interrupt us.
Almost you frighten me, when I would keep myself from sin, and yet I have looked on you with lust and wickedness, knowing it was wrong.
You are - you are a contemptible fool, _____! You are not even worth cursing!
I am not worthy that you should love me so well.
Dare you offer insult to my mother?
Go from here, lest my babe be born deformed because I have looked on your vile face.
You must not be so quick to assign blame to others. If there is fault, it must be your own.
Come, dear love, this is folly.
Perhaps I should seek to be a priest among the Christians,who, I have heard, teach their priests the secret of living without women.
It is strange. I had known you were wise and a priestess, but somehow I had never thought you were beautiful.
Tell me – where have you been? I would not ask, but that whatever it is, it lies heavy on your heart.
Why do you think I am any more happy or contented than you?
I do not know how I shall live if you go away.
I would not lead you into sin.
We have sinned already, you and I.
Is it true that you know all manner of charms and spells for fertility?
I am not your confessor! I have not accused you!
I would have you bear this in mind – charms often work as you would not that they would do.
But if I am older, then I will need to know more about women than I did when I was a baby, will I not?
Oh, stay, if you want to, but turn your back. I’ll not have you staring at me, sir Impudence!
Look at his sweet face, like one of those angels, he is.
Perhaps if you knocked your head open, you could shove some sense inside it. For sure, it will never grow there on its own.
Aye, say it! Mock me with my birth, you – I do not know my father’s name, but I know who fathered you, and between the two I would rather be in my situation!
Is that man fit to rule who would forswear his oath for a woman’s sake?
Speak the truth to me: how long have you had the Sight?
The truth is, I suppose, that her wits are not in the right place.
Is it true that I – I am the son of the High King?
Dear child, never be ashamed to love.
I do not admire his taste. I would sooner be housed in the stable with the other donkeys!
I am not the keeper of your conscience.
Don’t be more of a fool than you must.
Oh, ______ , in God’s name, what a ninny you are!
What can we do, short of murdering the guilty pair?
You are wise in charms and spells, cannot you give me a charm that will turn ______ ’s eye from ______ to me?
I think that if he married me, he would come to see that I am no less worthy of love than ______.
I do not think women have ever much happiness in marriage – only young girls think so, and I am not so young.
Are your charms and spells all moonlight rubbish, then?
You despise me, do you not?
Say that again, and wife or no, love or no, I will kill you!
And what of the king stag when the young stag is grown.
Let it be so. You shall make the Great Marriage with the land and with me in her name.
I am no traitor - it pains me that you think me so, when you have given me so much.
You are as beautiful to me, my dearest, as the day when we were first bedded.
You think everyone is wrong but you, don’t you.
My mother says that little ones should not contradict grown-ups, and you look as if you were not so much older than I. You aren’t much bigger, are you?
If I were older, I would be one of the Companions and my father would make me a knight and I would ride with them!
You who have had so many lovers, have you ever known what it is to love?
Happy? In that place of evil sorcery?
I am not such a good girl, though. I sin all the time. I am always doing wicked things.
Why am I being sent away, then?
I do not think I am ugly, but you must decide for yourself whether I am good or evil.
Won’t you come and tell me goodbye tomorrow? I thought I would be with you here.
Never name that well from which you will not drink!
Ask, and if I can give, it is yours.
I longed for the clean air of the fells, and the gulls’ cry, and your face.
But most women are fools, so that I prefer not to trouble myself making play with those who expect me to treat them as something very special, or pay heed to what they say.
You have spoilt me for foolish women.
It is easy to love him. And while all worship him thus, I have no possible task.
Then, their love of him must somehow be made less.
Oh, I am weary of ______ …. even ______ has fallen under their spell. Do not begin to defend them to me.
I am weary. I am weary and sick of fighting.
I would rather love him, as all men do.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
So I will be drunk. So let it be. I drink to death and to dishonor.
All my life my mother spoke of him as if he were a king or a saint, quite beyond mortal men.
No doubt your mother told you I am an evil sorceress.
And are you a sorceress, then, lady?
I think that being made a king must be a little like being made a priest. They are both sworn to serve man and God and to do what is right.
But you did slay a dragon, did you not?
I would not have minded if you were truly my brother.
Have you come to court to be one of my Companions?
I felt I might well see my rival.
Will you give me a token to bear into the lists?
Why, lady, you had better take back your favor! Would you have your honor so easily disposed of as that?
My lady, may I wear your token into battle?
______ seems enchanted by you.
Do you think I have need of charms or spells?
Perhaps he is glad that I have a lover who will not tempt me to leave him.
Do you think I care what that rabble think of me?
You bore yourself most bravely.
What would you that I should see, my mother?
And then – what then? Must I kill him?
I do not think fear of the priests, or of God’s wrath, or anything else will ever keep mankind from committing sins.
Error is useless and evil must be paid for, sooner or later.
Will you play your harp for me?
Are you a magician, _____? I sometime feel helpless, that you are working your magic on me.
Tell me more of yourself, I want to know everything about you.
I am no more than a man, and certainly not less than one.
I am a man of flesh and blood, and I love you.
You play with me as if I were a lapdog and expect me to be tame as a gelded pony.
Do you think because I am a cripple I am less than a man?
I wanted you to kiss me, but then you were so fierce, and I was frightened.
I cannot live without you. I must have you or die.
Will you not have some pity on me, beloved?
I love you. You know that I do.
Say that you will give me all your love.
You are so young and beautiful, and I am so twisted and ugly, I cannot believe you care for me.
Even now I think that I am dreaming, that you have for some reason roused me like this that you might make fun of the beast grovelling at your feet like a dog…
_____, will you come to my bed?
I know men like to boast of their conquest of maidens. How do I know that you will not brag out it?
I would dare anything to be with you, my love.
Nothing about you could frighten me, my love.
On your oath! You are mine?
Wait! You swear it! You are mine! Say it!
How is it that you are so untouched by time?
Believe me, I love you beyond all else on this earth.
Say you so, that the land where an old king rules can only be a land which fades?
But you do not know all the vows I have made.
What more do you foresee?
Do you think I am dealing in sorcery at my age?
For God’s sake, lower your voice! Such things should not even be whispered in this place!
Here’s a riddle for you - when a man will not mind his property, what’s to be done by those who have an interest in it?
Does _____ kiss you like that?
Are you jealous of _____? Was it not you who told me to gain their confidence?
Already _____ has had more than enough of what is mine.
I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine – yes, mine and not yours.
Am I to help you by betraying a woman who has taken the right the Goddess has given to all women, to choose what man she will?
I’ll have nothing to do with betraying her.
You’ll do what I command you!
Command me? Not in a thousand years!
I cannot bear to say farewell to you here, must it be this way?
Your heart was always with _____, my dearest.
I often think the only sin we did was not that we loved, but that I came between the love you had for each other.
