Quotes from bradley marion zimmer ii

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

Customs have no reason; they simply are.

Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.

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.

If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?

I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.

I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies--but I don't use that kind of language in public.

There is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God's goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone?

You have the Barbarian viewpoint, I see. Radio, for instance. We use it for emergency needs. The Barbarians used to listen to keep from doing things--I know, they even had radio with pictures, and used to sit and listen and look at other people doing things instead of doing them themselves.