Tanith Lee Quotes
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I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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'When will they fight?' I asked.'Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.'I laughed. 'I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.'
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Precognition or self-deception?
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'Can I appeal?''Oh yes.''Will it do any good?''None whatsoever.'
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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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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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'What do I care for the god?' the woman suddenly screamed, catching up her dead child. 'What god is he that takes away my son and leaves me nothing?'
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.
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White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.
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'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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Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.
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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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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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What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.
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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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I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'