Tanith Lee: Trending quotes

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

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

“Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.”

“Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.”

“The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.”

“It's lovely. I hate it.”

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

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

“The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.”

“Live and let love.
Love and let go.
Go live.”

“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.”

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

“The sacrifice lives, but the sun’s still shining.”

“We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.”

“When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.”

“And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.”

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

“‘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.”

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