Tanith Lee quotes - page 3

What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise. (Tanith Lee)
To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters. View quote
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A few old men began to say there had been a winter like this when they were warriors, and that it was a year of catastrophe and disappointment. But old men will ever spin this wheel. The summers were always hotter and the winters colder in the days of their strength, and the air thick with epic drama and portent. View quote
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope. View quote
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When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They'd believe anything if you make it sound silly enough. View quote
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Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent. View quote
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled. View quote
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I had not yet learned the lesson that when you are forever telling yourself that such and such is worth the price, then the price is too high and has been paid too often. View quote
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This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone. View quote
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Woana was the most talented, amazing and prodigious human in the world, and the most beautiful too. For Woana, if she had summoned them, those bright eyes in the sky would have danced down to earth; but naturally Woana was far too sophisticated to stoop to such a thing. Woana was, in fact, unrivalled, peerless. The reason being that Mitz belonged to her, and Mitz's feline ego would never consider that anyone, but the most sublime, could have acquired her own exceptional self. View quote
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she's much too beautiful to be unkind. (Tanith Lee)
Uasti was a good teacher,” he said. "She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become. View quote
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Don't judge yourself,” he said. "None of us are ever good at it. View quote
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Men think for themselves when they're men. View quote
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What's Hell?” inquired Wild-Eye. "You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman? View quote
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful. View quote
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered. View quote
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky. View quote
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But what am I to do?” cried the Prince. "What you feel you must,” said the Theel. "That's the only thing to do at any time. View quote
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The moon walks east of midnight, The sun walks west of noon. And though I love you, sweetheart, I will not sing your tune. View quote
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I have a plan,” said Xaros, "improbable only in its genius. (Tanith Lee)
Odd, how different different men's fears could be. View quote
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning. View quote
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real? View quote
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A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport. View quote
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