merlin

But sometimes to keep Evil from getting in, you have to let Good out.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more_

The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

Because you tred upon my dreams, the world is made of magic things.

Since that night you walked through my dreams, the world is full of magic things.

Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?""No, just the way we do,"Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered (...) A blaze leapt up on the instant. Merlin then opened his hands and produced some food out of thin air.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.

It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain.

The Lady may favoryou, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny.

Anyway, it__ unthinkable! Dragons and knights are born enemies. They need to be enemies just like dogs hate cats, cats hate mice and mice hate scientists. Without somebody to hate where would all the hate go? The hate would just boil up inside you, eat away and cause you to have indigestion then a heart attack. We need to release the anger, and we release it on dragons who release it back on us. We slay them and they roast us. It is the natural order of things, Emma.

Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.