[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,...

A Druid in training must be a bard before he is a priest, for music is one of the keys to the laws of the universe.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain