“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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“Every night in Shanghai those Chinese too poor to pay for the burial of their relatives would launch the bodies from the funeral piers at Nantao, decking the coffins with paper flowers. Carried away on the tide, they came back on the next, returning to the waterfront of Shanghai with all the other debris abandoned by the city. Meadows of paper flowers drifted on running tide and clumped in miniature floating gardens around the old men and women, the young mothers and small children, whose swollen bodies seemed to have been fed during the night by the patient Yangtze.”
― J.G. Ballard, quote from Empire of the Sun
“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.”
― Chad Harbach, quote from The Art of Fielding
“If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
― quote from The Elephant Tree
“You’re not just any girl. You’re my girl.”
― Samantha Towle, quote from The Mighty Storm
“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
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