“Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.”

— Tanith Lee

Source: Short fiction, The Winter Players (1976), Chapter 5, “Black Room, Black Road” (p. 157)

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British writer 1947–2015

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