I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.


Book Two, Part IV War March, Chapter 3 (p. 246) - The Birthgrave (1975)

Tanith Lee Quotes

I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there ...

I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there ...

I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there ...

I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there ...