If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.
Tanith Lee Quotes
1947–2015 England
Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She also wrote under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
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Also known as: Esther Garber
164 quotes
Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
The Birthgrave (1975)
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
Night's Master (1978)
The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.
Delirium's Mistress (1986)
I will suppose that all humankind have souls, a condition which, when sober, I do not hold.
Night's Sorceries (1987)
Nothing can be learned without some measure of risk, and, more vital still, of patience.
Electric Forest (1979)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
He took her virginity with the gentle care of love, and with love’s glorious violence.
Night's Sorceries (1987)
Let us prove to the world that superstition is idiocy and all the demons are dust.
Perfidious Amber (1979)
Volkhavaar (1977)
Power is the wine after which all other wine is mud.
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.
Companions on the Road (1975)
Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Men think for themselves when they’re men.
The Storm Lord (1976)
Apostasy fired her blood as love had done.
Death's Master (1979)
The absolute, as I had finally been shown, does not need the accompaniment of pipes and drums.
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
The Birthgrave (1975)
I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tanith Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.