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Tanith Lee on Valentine's Day

1947–2015 England

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11 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)

We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.

The Dragon Hoard (1971)

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)

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

Night's Sorceries (1987)

True beauty is always oddly surprising.

The Birthgrave (1975)

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)

It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

Attribution

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