Tanith Lee Quotes
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.
Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")
and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event
Azhrarn the Beautiful, " said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
