Quotes from Day by Night — Tanith Lee
1947–2015 England
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“I can’t guess,” said Olvia, “why he accepted my invitation. If I had realized he would, I would never have sent it.”
Day by Night (1980)
The harshest lesson of all was that which ran contrary to the teaching of his own personality.
Day by Night (1980)
Like many a longed-for gift, it was, in possession, unwelcome.
Day by Night (1980)
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)
It was idiotic to be superstitious.
Day by Night (1980)
But among the aristocrats whose existence could be lengthily prolonged into three or four hundred spans, boredom came to be the killer, a bizarre running down, a sort of decline and decay, nonphysical but fatal.
Day by Night (1980)
For, though sometimes worshipping gods, the Yunea did not permit itself to stray too far onto the abstract path of sheer faith. An ambience of security was all the aristocrats required, a guarantee that fate loved them.
Day by Night (1980)