"While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy."

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[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley