• ❝ I don’t understand why you had to bring so many books. ❞
• ❝ You’re a little old to be filling your head with such nonsense. ❞
• ❝ I saw a fairy! ❞
• ❝ That’s not necessary, I can walk perfectly well…❞
• ❝ Better not go in there. You may get lost. ❞
• ❝ She’s sick with child. Did you notice? ❞
• ❝ Those bastards know the terrain better than any of us. ❞
• ❝ This will help you sleep through the night. Just two drops before bed. Two drops only. ❞
• ❝ Close the door and turn off the lights, sweetie. ❞
• ❝ The wound is getting worse. His leg isn’t any better. ❞
• ❝ Here, the houses are old. They creak… as if they were speaking.  ❞
• ❝ Why did you have to get married? ❞
• ❝ I’m with you. You weren’t alone. You were never alone. ❞
• ❝ Men talked amongst themselves about their fear of death, and pain, but never about the promise of eternal life. ❞
• ❝ Don’t fuck with me. ❞
• ❝ You killed him… you killed him! Murderer! Son of a bitch! ❞
• ❝ Maybe you’ll learn to search these assholes properly before you come to bother me. ❞
• ❝ Look. This is a fairy. ❞
• ❝ It’s you! You’ve returned! ❞
• ❝ I’ve had so many names… old name that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. ❞
• ❝ You were not born of man. It was the moon that bore you. ❞
• ❝ Prepare these rabbits for dinner tonight. ❞
• ❝ He’s nothing but a fussy dandy. A fussy dandy! ❞
• ❝ They eat more than a couple of pigs, and they never shut up. Not even underwater. ❞
• ❝ What I would have given to have a dress like this at your age. And look at the shoes! ❞
• ❝ You’ll look like a princess… ❞
• ❝ Do you want some milk with honey? ❞
• ❝ I believed in a lot of things I don’t believe anymore. ❞
• ❝ When the woods were young, they were home to creatures who were full of magic and wonder. ❞
• ❝Those sons of bitches are here… and they’re watching us. ❞
• ❝ They’re losing ground, and one of them is wounded. ❞
• ❝ These people hold the mistaken belief that we’re all equal. ❞
• ❝ If we need to kill every one of these vermin to settle it, we’ll kill them all, and that’s that. ❞
• ❝ Have I ever told you that I was acquainted with your father? ❞
• ❝ What you’ve done hurts me. ❞
• ❝ Make her/him/them well. I don’t care what it costs or what you need. Make her/him/them well. ❞
• ❝ You’re helping the men in the woods, aren’t you? ❞
• ❝ Do you know a lullaby? ❞
• ❝ When that man finds out about us, he’ll kill us all. Have you thought about that? ❞
• ❝ Look. This is a mandrake root—a plant that dreamt of being human. ❞
• ❝ The thing that slumbers there… it is not human. ❞
• ❝ I’ll try to make it in as few cuts as possible. ❞
• ❝ I’m a coward for living next to that son of a bitch. ❞
• ❝ You’ll meet her; she’s very pretty, even though she’s sometimes sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles… you’ll love her. ❞
• ❝ Listen, if you do what I say, I’ll take you to my kingdom and make you a prince. ❞
• ❝ God only knows what they wanted, other than to waste our time. ❞
• ❝ Go ahead, don’t be afraid! This is the only decent way to die! ❞
• ❝ I’ll make you a deal. If you can count to three without st-st-stuttering, you can go. ❞
• ❝ Don’t look at him, look at me. Above me there is no one. ❞
• ❝ All memory of you will fade in time, and we will vanish along with it. ❞
• ❝ I like having you handy, ____. It has its advantages. ❞
• ❝ K-k-k-kill me, kill me now. Please. ❞
• ❝ Magic doesn’t exist! Not for you, not for me, not for anyone! ❞
• ❝ Please, take me away from here! Let’s just go, please! ❞
• ❝ The world is a cruel place. And you’ll learn that, even if it hurts. ❞
• ❝ To obey–just like that–for the sake of obeying, without questioning… that is something only people like you can do. ❞
• ❝ What must you think of me? You must think I’m a monster. ❞
• ❝ It doesn’t matter what someone like me thinks. ❞
• ❝ How long have you been laughing at me? Little bitch! ❞
• ❝ If anyone tries to get in… kill her first. ❞
• ❝ That’s what you’ve always thought. That’s why I was able to get away with it. I was invisible to you. ❞
• ❝ Damn. You’ve found my weakness: pride. ❞
• ❝ I’m not an old man, nor a wounded prisoner! ❞
• ❝ You wouldn’t be the first pig I’ve gutted! ❞
• ❝ Don’t be a fool, sweetheart. If anyone’s going to kill you… let it be me. ❞
• ❝ We’re leaving. Together. Don’t be afraid… nothing is going to happen to you. ❞
• ❝ Just a drop of blood. A pinprick, that’s all. ❞
• ❝ You promised to obey me without question! ❞
• ❝ Tell my son… tell him what time his father died. Tell him… that I– ❞
• ❝ No. He won’t even know your name. ❞
• ❝ You have spilled your blood rather than the blood of an innocent. ❞
• ❝ She reigned with justice and a kind heart for many centuries ❞
• ❝ She left small traces of her time on Earth, visible only to those who knew where to look. ❞

– “Little Beast”, Richard Siken

This is part one 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.

• But what can a virgin know of the sorrows and travail of mankind?
• My fingers ache! Why must I spin, spin, spin all the time, as if I were a waiting-woman?
• Romans make a great matter of worrying over who lay with their women.
• And why could you not come before, why did you leave me all alone?
• No single God can rule all things.
• The principle of woman, so they say, is the principle of all evil.
• There is some fantastic Jewish tale about an apple and a snake.
• Those who are the Lords of this world permitted me to come back, but in another body of flesh.
• But if men do not believe in more than one life, how will they avoid despair?
• What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?
• I will not let you play again at skipping-stones with my life!
• Do you think I will let you plot against my child’s life as you have plotted against mine?
• You are almost a woman, you must not behave like a spoilt child!
• Will you fly so recklessly in the face of fate?
• Such love we might well pray to be spared in a God.
• Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?
• And I suppose you will give me a charm so that he will fall so deep in love with me that he cannot resist it?
• You are young, and I do not think you have any idea how beautiful you are.
• She is a puppy bitch with eyes hot for anything in the shape of a man.
• I suspect he’s no good Christian.
• He’s a lecherous man with a dozen bastards, no woman’s safe around him.
• He’s soldier enough for a Caesar; the men will follow him through hell, if they have to.
• Have you a wish to be queen?
• You say that because you are too young to know what it means.
• I do not want to spend the rest of my lifetime at war.
• I like not the way he looks at you. He is no man for a decent woman to know. Avoid him.
• Forgive my clumsiness, lady. I am all too big to sit in your lap!
• I do not want to be old, and think of Heaven and peace, for they seem very dull to me. I want war and plunder and women – oh, yes, women – and the priests do not approve of any of those things.
• Do you truly think women know nothing of state matters?
• You will not play the shrew with me, madam!
• You will not speak to me in that voice or I shall beat you in earnest.
• Touch me at your peril, or I shall teach you that a daughter of the Holy Isle is no man’s slave nor servant!
• I trust him no further than I could kick his arse on a muddy day!
• I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret.
• I will throw myself into the river before ever you touch me again!
• You lie, and you know you lie!
• You knave whose mouth and mind are as foul as your filthy kisses!
• Be silent, you evil-minded scold!
• Is that how you seduced my king into your arms?
• Do you think I would ever look at you again except with the loathing I would feel for a snake?
• Your Christian piety permits you to ravish your own wife!
• I could not bear it, that you should look like that at that lustful and vicious man, and look on me only with duty and resignation.
• I am innocent of whatever sins your evil mind believes I have committed!
• If you think so evil of me, that I am adulteress, witch, all these ill things, why then did you not rejoice at the prospect of getting quit of me so simply?
• Have you put some spell upon my manhood, you accursed bitch?
• I am no longer a pliant girl but a woman with a mind of her own, and perhaps he thinks you would be easier to deal with.
• Even should I never again look upon his face in this life, I am bound to him and I shall be so bound until I die.
• And I cannot believe the Goddess would have wrought this upheaval in my life, if I was never meant again to see him.
• Go and the Devil take you, so that you come not into my presence.
• Why should I waste my breath with a curse? I would as willingly bid you Godspeed to your own heaven, and may your God find more pleasure in your company than I do.
• Why do you seek to go where it is forbidden to go?
• Have you no words of love for me?
• I have waited so long – I had begun to fear it would never come, and now you have no word of love or look of kindness for me.
• Did I dream it, after all, that you loved me, wanted me?
• I do not want to frighten you, but I have dreamed so long of this moment.
• Surely the time for dreaming is over?
• And why, when first I looked upon your face, did I feel that I had known you before the world was made?
• You are my love, my wife, my queen. I swear to you by my crown and by my manhood, you shall be my queen and I will never take another woman before you or put you aside.
• You are my love and my lord and my king, and I will love you as long as I live, and as long thereafter as God wills.
• Whatever comes of this, I love you.
• I will kill him before he can touch you again.
• Sleep, my love. Sleep.
• Lie still, dear love, dawn is still far away.