Tanith Lee - God Quotes

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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?

Tanith Lee

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

Tanith Lee

I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.

Tanith Lee

Now there was that look of waiting, and submission—not the frenzy of the stadium, but the quiet sleep-trance of belief. Something stirred in me at it, as I realized I had them in my palm. I stood very still in my white and black, holding the copper things in my hands, and then I began to walk between them toward the god. And I laughed at the god as I went toward him. You—what are you? And he had no answer for me, for here it was the priest who was the power, not the god, poor empty stone.

Tanith Lee

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

Tanith Lee

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

Tanith Lee