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Destiny or gods or fortune—whatever one is pleased or innocent enough to call them—they seal men to their decree.

— Tanith Lee Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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More quotes by Tanith Lee

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.

Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

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Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

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