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The sea was a phenomenon I had never clapped eyes on for myself, yet it seemed, from the tales, a destination ultimate and uncompromising. The ocean’s edge, the brink of the land; the lip of Chaos.

— Tanith Lee Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

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If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.

Night's Sorceries (1987)

Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

The Birthgrave (1975)

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

Night's Master (1978)

The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.

Quest for the White Witch (1978)

There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.

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