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“Les Vazdru ne pleurent pas.
- Chaque parole prononcée fut une larme.”

Tanith Lee livre Delirium's Mistress

Delirium's Mistress

Tanith Lee: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Tanith Lee

Source: Wolf Star

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

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Tanith Lee livre Delirium's Mistress

Source: Delirium's Mistress

“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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Tanith Lee Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Source: Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

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

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“Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.”

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Source: Wolf Queen

“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.”

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Tanith Lee livre Delusion's Master

Source: Delusion's Master

“It's lovely. I hate it.”

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Source: Wolf Queen

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

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Tanith Lee Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Source: Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

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

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Source: Wolf Tower

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

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Tanith Lee livre Death’s Master

Source: Death's Master

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

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Cruel Pink

“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.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

Book Two, Part IV “War March”, Chapter 3 (p. 246)
The Birthgrave (1975)

“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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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 2 (p. 151)
The Birthgrave (1975)

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

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Tanith Lee livre East of Midnight

Source: East of Midnight (1977), Chapter 16, “Sorcery East of Midnight” (p. 169)

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

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part II “The Wolf Hunt”, Chapter 2 (p. 178)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

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

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 9 (p. 78)

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

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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

Book Two, Part III “The Dark City”, Chapter 2 (p. 191)
The Birthgrave (1975)

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

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Short fiction, Into Gold (1986)

“‘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.”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 12)

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

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Tanith Lee livre Don't Bite the Sun

Part 1, Chapter 4 (p. 28)
Don't Bite the Sun (1976)

“As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part II “The Wolf Hunt”, Chapter 3 (p. 185)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

“What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Storm Lord

Book 5, “The Serpent Wakes” Chapter 21 (p. 286)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“We are the sum of our achievements, nothing more and nothing less. The mountain road which led us here was built by a dead people none of us would remember otherwise. What we create is the only part of us which can survive, or has the right to. Man is nothing, except to other men.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

The Birthgrave (1975)
Source: Book Two, Part V “Tower-Eshkorek”, Chapter 3 (p. 303)

“Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?”

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Tanith Lee livre The Castle of Dark

Part 4 “The Witch Hunt” (p. 133)
The Castle of Dark (1978)

“Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part II “The Wolf Hunt”, Chapter 1 (p. 166)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

“A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.
The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke…. It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Storm Lord

Book 4, “Hell’s Blue Burning Seas” Chapter 15 (p. 208)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died—but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.”

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Tanith Lee livre East of Midnight

Source: East of Midnight (1977), Chapter 15, “Dekteon” (p. 163)

“Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 6 (p. 52)

“I cried out. I turned the pages, one after the other, in a frenzy. I could not believe what I saw, would not believe it. For the pages of the book were blank.
Oh, yes, there had been writing, this much I could see, but the inks had faded. Now there were only faint smudges and marks here and there on the yellowness. And I could tell nothing from them…
It came to me, as I walked, how bitter the irony of the Book had been which had said: Herein the Truth. For it had a truth of its own in its bleached barrenness. What was truth except something which faded, lost its shape, grew unreadable and indistinguishable, at last a blank page for men to write on what they wished.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

Book Three, Part II “The Edge of the Sea”, Chapter 2 (p. 357)
The Birthgrave (1975)

“That evening I met a black witch with a red cat, walking on a headland above the sea.
I had reached the sea unexpectedly, but the sea is unexpected in any event to one who has never known it. You think it land at first, or sky, and penultimately mist. Then you realize a vast azure mass of water lies like a dragon in the sun’s last rays, breathing and shifting on the beaches.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part II “The Wolf Hunt”, Chapter 3 (p. 182)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

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