Tanith Lee Quotes

Sorry," I said sweetly, "I'm the new one with the quick temper and the uncontrollable homicidal tendencies.

Can I appeal?"
"Oh yes."
"Will it do any good?"
"None whatsoever.

Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.

Thinta flew safely, and I realized how much I preferred being with Hergal and feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright. Actually when I’m with Hergal I always realize how much I prefer being with Thinta and not feeling the blood drain out of my head with fright.

Men think for themselves when they’re men.

I have a plan," said Xaros, "improbable only in its genius.

There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.

What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.

A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.
The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.

Such an accusation is as stupid as it is absurd.

A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.

I think Kathaos fears no divine forces."
"Then he's a brave man."
"Oh, men make their own gods," Yannul remarked. "I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.

Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything," Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.
The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.
"Such undemanding gods.

Is it the regency you want, or me?"
"The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.

I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.