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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

“It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 8 (pp. 73-74)

“All in all he had not done badly out of the war, but the smells of it, the sights of it, and the cries of pain that attended it like the vultures, had sickened and soured him. Yes, he could fight well enough. And kill efficiently. He feared death, like other men, but could put that from his mind in battle, and he was no fool with a sword or knife. But several smoking ruins ago there had come a curious shift inside himself. He had lost his sense of purpose in the war; he supposed because it was not truly his own purpose but that of the King.”

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Tanith Lee

Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 1, “Avillis” (p. 4)

“Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything,” Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.
The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.
“Such undemanding gods.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Storm Lord

Book 2, “Ruins and Bright Towers” Chapter 5 (p. 79)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“Brother, sister, only words; but this, a reality, a destroyer at the gate. What could it have mattered, after all, to celebrate her hungry youth, and his, before the sword fell on her? All the plots and schemes, the moralities and codes of men, seemed dust in the face of death.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part III “The Island”, Chapter 2 (p. 215)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

“Wealth, or large amounts of possessions seemed to him limiting. They brought their own prison with them. He preferred, since he had once known a kind of prison, to travel free.”

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Tanith Lee

Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 2, “The Chalice” (p. 16)

“The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Castle of Dark

Source: The Castle of Dark (1978), Chapter 12 “Lir: The Walled Town” (p. 102)

“Sorry,” I said sweetly, “I’m the new one with the quick temper and the uncontrollable homicidal tendencies.”

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Tanith Lee livre Don't Bite the Sun

Part 3, Chapter 8 (p. 96)
Don't Bite the Sun (1976)

“Like most loners,” said Moddik, “you carry the seeds of violent authority. Loners need to be bossy. They quickly learn it’s the only method they have of shoving people off their backs.”

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Tanith Lee livre Drinking Sapphire Wine

Part 3, Chapter 8 (p. 137)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

““I think Kathaos fears no divine forces.”
“Then he’s a brave man.”
“Oh, men make their own gods,” Yannul remarked. “I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.””

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Tanith Lee livre The Storm Lord

Book 3, “The Meteoric Hero” Chapter 9 (p. 117)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“Well now,” he said, “was I as good as you were when you were me?”

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Tanith Lee livre Drinking Sapphire Wine

Part 3, Chapter 11 (p. 152)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

“It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.”

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Tanith Lee livre Drinking Sapphire Wine

Part 2, Chapter 1 (p. 60)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

“The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book One, Part II “The Warrior”, Chapter 2 (p. 44)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

“Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 102)

“I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.”

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Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 9, “The Dark” (p. 98)

“Sickness, the serpent, is coming to bite you,
Death, the old dark man, is coming to carry you off,
Rest uneasy, you stinking carrion, on your gold beds.”

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Tanith Lee livre The Birthgrave

Book Two, Part II “The Water”, Chapter 1 (p. 170)
The Birthgrave (1975)

“Tonight it was to be a play for aristocrats to watch, concerning gods and shepherds; it was the humble villages that clamored for princesses and emperors.”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 9 (p. 84)

“This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.”

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Tanith Lee livre Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 15 (p. 133)

“There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.”

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Tanith Lee livre Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book One, Part II “The Warrior”, Chapter 2 (p. 49)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

“Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.”

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Tanith Lee livre Drinking Sapphire Wine

Part 1, Chapter 10 (p. 57)
Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

“I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.”

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Tanith Lee livre Don't Bite the Sun

Part 4, Chapter 4 (p. 122)
Don't Bite the Sun (1976)

“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”

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Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 5 “A Ship with Wings” (p. 167)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

“The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time.”

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Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Book 1 “Light Underground”, Chapter 6 “Kazir and Ferazhin” (p. 64)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

“At that, I understood for sure I must not lose her, for the earth is not the earth without some light to see it by, and she was mine.”

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