“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
“It was a gringo; in the remote corners of the world the short-sleeved flowered tourist shirt, the steel-rimmed glasses, khaki pants and bulldog shoes had become the uniform of earnest American enterprise. Moon recognized the man as the new missionary. His head was cropped too close, so that his white skull gleamed, and the red skin of his neck and jaw was riddled with old acne; his face was bald with anxiety and tiresome small agonies.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from At Play in the Fields of the Lord
“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star. ”
― Marcel Proust, quote from The Captive & The Fugitive
“Do any human beings ever realize life, while they live it - every, every minute?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from That Boy
“I remembered some of it and some of the things that fell out of my mouth, like telling him his dick was the best treat and that I'd rather have it than chocolate. I mean, c'mob, I gave his dick a better rating than chocolate - who does that?”
― Amelia Hutchins, quote from Taunting Destiny
“He has to wair for another load of laundry to get done. So I wait with him. I lean back against the couch, sitting really low the way I like. I scrunch over and put my head on his shoulder. We sit like that for a long time. Watching other people's laundry dry. <3”
― Susane Colasanti, quote from Take Me There
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