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Quotes from Volkhavaar — Tanith Lee

1947–2015 England

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This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.

Volkhavaar (1977)

They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.

Volkhavaar (1977)

When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.

Volkhavaar (1977)

“‘Not everything that walks is a man,’” said the boulder conversationally, “‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.”

Volkhavaar (1977)

The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.

Volkhavaar (1977)

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)

Night, the dark widow, came walking on the hills.

Volkhavaar (1977)

It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.

Volkhavaar (1977)

Tonight it was to be a play for aristocrats to watch, concerning gods and shepherds; it was the humble villages that clamored for princesses and emperors.

Volkhavaar (1977)

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

Volkhavaar (1977)

Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?

Volkhavaar (1977)

Attribution

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