Tanith Lee Short Quotes

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Odd, how different different men's fears could be.

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

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Well now, he said, was I as good as you were when you were me?

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

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

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Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

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Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.

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

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All my life, I said, knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.

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

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

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

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

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Sometimes, Skorous, Draco said, you are a fool.
Sometimes I am not alone in that.

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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

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

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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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I know the old ways. There's nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.

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Sorry, I said sweetly, I'm the new one with the quick temper and the uncontrollable homicidal tendencies.

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Uasti was a good teacher, he said. She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.

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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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It's legend now, but legend is the smoke from the fire, and the wood that the fire consumes is the substance.

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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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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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If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don't limit yourself.

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It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

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I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

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