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Tanith Lee on Anniversary

1947–2015 England

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9 quotes

He took her virginity with the gentle care of love, and with love’s glorious violence.

Night's Sorceries (1987)

Apostasy fired her blood as love had done.

Death's Master (1979)

The demons had invented love. There needs to be said no more.

Night's Sorceries (1987)

The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time.

Night's Master (1978)

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.

Volkhavaar (1977)

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)

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)

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)

Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.

Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

Attribution

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