“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
Tanith Lee
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date September 19, 1947
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“People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook
“By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Player of Games
“Now you may not know this”—Lincoln shut his eyes—“but when I first ran for the Illinois legislature, I came out, more or less, for female suffrage; not exactly the most popular position to take back then, and in that part of the world.” “It is still not the most popular issue anywhere in the world, thank God.” “Well, Mrs. Frémont comes to see me late at night—right off the cars from the West—and threatens me to my face with an uprising against the government, led by the Frémonts and their radical friends. So I called her, in the nicest way, I thought, ‘Quite a lady politician,’ and she was madder than a wet hen and went and told everyone that I’d threatened her!” Lincoln sighed. “Is it possible that female suffrage may not be the answer to every human problem?”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Lincoln
“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.”
― Alan Lightman, quote from Einstein's Dreams
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