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“Human aspiration is often blind, its motto: I want, therefore I will have.”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Part 2 “Soul-of-the-Moon”, Chapter 4 “Moonflame” (p. 115)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)

“The stink of madness is unsubtle here. Let us be going.”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Prologue, “The Tower of Baybhelu”(p. 36)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)

“What else is she like?”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

The Eshva sighed at the touch of Azhrarn’s fingers. The sigh said this: Like a white moth at dusk, a night-blooming lily. Like music played by the reflection of a swan as it passes over the strings of a moonlit lake.
Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 1 “Honey-Sweet” (p. 127)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night's Master (1978)

“Who would dare invite such a smoke? To some it might be healing, but to others, bane. Breathed in at the nostrils, it seemed to fill the eyes and ears and brain. To a man who knew many things, it would reveal many more, to a man who knew little it would reveal too much. Its name was self-knowledge.”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Tales from the Flat Earth, Night's Master (1978)
Source: Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 4 “The Anger of the Magicians” (p. 163)