Tanith Lee on Love
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Tanith Lee, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Tanith Lee, entry #149214: "I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe."
Attributed to Tanith Lee, entry #176185: "The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house."
7 Quotes by Tanith Lee on Love
"I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe."
"The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house."
"I have seen women who thought they loved me look at me that way, and wolves which were hungry."
"It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least."
"Apostasy fired her blood as love had done."
"The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all."
"Into her shrewd and youthful brain there came an inspiration. It was an inspiration of the sort to set heart banging, teeth jittering, hands cold and mouth dry. It was of the sort which comes only once, and must be hearkened to and acted on—or let go and ever regretted. Lylas chose not to regret."