Tanith Lee quotes - page 2

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. (Tanith Lee)
Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul. View quote
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. View quote
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these. View quote
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me. View quote
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It's lovely. I hate it. (Tanith Lee)
I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars. View quote
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The sacrifice lives, but the sun's still shining. View quote
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is. View quote
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When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes, Skorous,” Draco said, "you are a fool.” "Sometimes I am not alone in that. View quote
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‘Not everything that walks is a man,'” said the boulder conversationally, "‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,' as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him. (Tanith Lee)
She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn't think that intensely. View quote
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Thinta flew safely, and I realized how much I preferred being with Hergal and feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. Actually when I'm with Hergal I always realize how much I prefer being with Thinta and not feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. View quote
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters. View quote
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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? View quote
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