Quotes by Tanith Lee

About Tanith Lee:

Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

Tanith Lee

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.

Tanith Lee

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tanith Lee

Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fe...

Tanith Lee

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Tanith Lee

Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost alone. The countryside here used to be a lot more inter...

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Israbel smiled once more. It was difficult to take your gaze away from her mouth - unless you looked into her eyes; and then you could only look at those... ("Israbel")

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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")

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The fever, I realized, had gone. Beneath my feet, the hardwood floor felt cool on my feet, the air gentle against my itching legs. This was just the world, after all. Big, thoroughly mapped place to sell joy or buy it, hunt company or flee it, trust ...

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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

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I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special lit...

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I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

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She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

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I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

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Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.

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and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

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The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

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It's lovely. I hate it.

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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

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Author Bio

  • NameTanith Lee
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornSeptember 19, 1947
  • DiedMay 24, 2015
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Poet