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Quest for the White Witch

Quest for the White Witch

He called himself by the name of the father he had never known, Vazkor, king of a forgotten land. In his veins were mingled the blood of that regal warrior and that of his witch mother, the silver-masked, snowy-haired survivor of the hated Old Race. He had sworn that she would die at his hands in the name of his father and all that his world had become. Across that barbaric and age-haunted planet his quest went relentlessly on. As he searched, so grew his own powers, his fearful heritage. Across wide seas, in conquered cities, and among haunted mountains, the hunt took him. And as he drew closer to his objective, the clearer became the way she must be slain, the more certain his ability to sunder all her witchcraft and ancient science to rid the world once and for all of his creator - the white witch from the volcano.


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“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.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 3 (p. 316)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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“I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book Two, Part II “White Mountain”, Chapter 3 (p. 283)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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“Destiny or gods or fortune—whatever one is pleased or innocent enough to call them—they seal men to their decree.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book Two, Part I “In the Wilderness”, Chapter 2 (p. 240)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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“The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book One, Part IV “The Cloud”, Chapter 5 (p. 208)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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“Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.”

Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch

Book One, Part III “The Crimson Palace”, Chapter 6 (p. 155)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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