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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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.

The Birthgrave (1975)

I had not yet learned the lesson that when you are forever telling yourself that such and such is worth the price, then the price is too high and has been paid too often.

Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.

Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.

The Storm Lord (1976)

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.

The Birthgrave (1975)

The antithesis of myself. No fervor in him, no greed for life, only his ruthless craving to possess, which took no pleasure in possession.

Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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.

The Castle of Dark (1978)

I have seen women who thought they loved me look at me that way, and wolves which were hungry.

Quest for the White Witch (1978)

“Your beauty leaves me breathless,” said Pereban.
“Yet you find the breath to say so.”

Night's Sorceries (1987)

I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

“May the gods take note,” said he, “that it is my kind heart brought me to this predicament.” The gods, of course, did no such thing.

Night's Sorceries (1987)

What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.

Volkhavaar (1977)

True beauty is always oddly surprising.

The Birthgrave (1975)

She had no reason not to believe in the impossible. Desperation was always ready to pray for miracles.

Electric Forest (1979)

Ceedres was her god. To be happy, she must worship him, and let him destroy her, and take pleasure in it.

Day by Night (1980)

Westward and inland there was a form of government, some prince or other sitting on his backside ordering this or that.

Quest for the White Witch (1978)

The moon walks east of midnight,
The sun walks west of noon.
And though I love you, sweetheart,
I will not sing your tune.

East of Midnight (1977)

“What can we do?” said they, limping home. “We are only ordinary men.”
By which they meant they thought themselves extraordinary enough that their skins must be saved at all costs.

Delirium's Mistress (1986)

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.

Quest for the White Witch (1978)

Ebriel regarded his adversary. His eyes grew peculiarly lambent, as though he had come to love her. Of course, they were sworn foes; perhaps he had.

Delirium's Mistress (1986)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tanith Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.