Tanith Lee Quotes

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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.

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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

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I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

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He had been too near the hard facts of religion as a child to find it soothing.

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Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I'd left something behind. My head or something.

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Don't judge yourself, he said. None of us are ever good at it.

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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

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I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.

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Sickness, the serpent, is coming to bite you,
Death, the old dark man, is coming to carry you off,
Rest uneasy, you stinking carrion, on your gold beds.

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For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.

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We are the sum of our achievements, nothing more and nothing less. The mountain road which led us here was built by a dead people none of us would remember otherwise. What we create is the only part of us which can survive, or has the right to. Man is nothing, except to other men.

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What do I care for the god? the woman suddenly screamed, catching up her dead child. What god is he that takes away my son and leaves me nothing?

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She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

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And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.

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I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

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Can I appeal?
Oh yes.
Will it do any good?
None whatsoever.

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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

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Now you understand, Rarm said to me. It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.

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