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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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This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone.
Tanith Lee
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The sea was a phenomenon I had never clapped eyes on for myself, yet it seemed, from the tales, a destination ultimate and uncompromising. The ocean’s edge, the brink of the land; the lip of Chaos.
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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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'I have a plan,' said Xaros, 'improbable only in its genius.'
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'But what am I to do?' cried the Prince.'What you feel you must,' said the Theel. 'That’s the only thing to do at any time.'
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Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
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Night, the dark widow, came walking on the hills.
Tanith Lee
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A few old men began to say there had been a winter like this when they were warriors, and that it was a year of catastrophe and disappointment. But old men will ever spin this wheel. The summers were always hotter and the winters colder in the days of their strength, and the air thick with epic drama and portent.
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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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The moon walks east of midnight,The sun walks west of noon.And though I love you, sweetheart,I will not sing your tune.
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Such an accusation is as stupid as it is absurd.
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
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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.
Tanith Lee
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
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There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
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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.
Tanith Lee