“Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Go nowhere on a horse that fades.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise...”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any tongue that will do. Such words vanished from the world when it shook itself free from the ocean of chaos, in a cataclysm that reshaped it like one of the balls small children throw in the air at play.”
― Tanith Lee, quote from Night's Master
“I wanted to be a religious leader when I was young and now I just reside in my house and try not to be too unhappy. I have a friend living with me, which makes it easier.”
― Jane Bowles, quote from Two Serious Ladies
“My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.”
― Stefne Miller, quote from Collision
“Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for and against the Monarchy, for and against the Revolution, for and against Robespierre, for and against the Constitutions of 1830 and 1848, for and against the Commune. No other country had such a long and unbroken experience of bipolar politics, underscored by the conventional historiography of the national Revolutionary myth as inculcated to French schoolchildren for many decades. Moreover”
― Tony Judt, quote from Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
“You have to keep your wealth afloat and no one will do it for you. It'll run through your fingers if you don't care.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist
“They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.”
― Elise Kova, quote from Air Awakens
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