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1. "What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it." ~ Tanith Lee

2. "Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see." ~ Tanith Lee

3. "Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified." ~ Tanith Lee

4. "Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest." ~ Tanith Lee

5. "We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do." ~ Tanith Lee

6. "When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise..." ~ Tanith Lee

7. "It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps..." ~ Tanith Lee

8. "Pale beauty stands aghast," he said, "at the vulgar ugliness of men." ~ Tanith Lee

9. "The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear." ~ Tanith Lee

10. "Whatever the hell I am, I am Me." ~ Tanith Lee

11. "She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening." ~ Tanith Lee

12. "The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis." ~ Tanith Lee

13. "If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young." ~ Tanith Lee

14. "As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm." ~ Tanith Lee

15. "I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped." ~ Tanith Lee

16. "I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen." ~ Tanith Lee

17. "I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?" ~ Tanith Lee

18. "It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself." ~ Tanith Lee

19. "No one is ever ordinary." ~ Tanith Lee

20. "When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it." ~ Tanith Lee

21. "Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche." ~ Tanith Lee

22. "Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?" ~ Tanith Lee

23. "At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer." ~ Tanith Lee

24. "and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event" ~ Tanith Lee

25. "I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death." ~ Tanith Lee

26. "The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it." ~ Tanith Lee

27. "Israbel smiled once more. It was difficult to take your gaze away from her mouth - unless you looked into her eyes; and then you could only look at those... ("Israbel")" ~ Tanith Lee

28. "The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit." ~ Tanith Lee

29. "Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root." ~ Tanith Lee

30. "When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I'm writing about. I can see it, hear its sounds, feel its heat or rain. The characters become better known to me than the closest family or friends. This makes the writing-down part very simple most of the time. I only need to describe what's already there in front of me. That said, it won't be a surprise if I add that the imagined worlds quickly become entangled with the so-called reality of this one.Since I write almost every day, and I think (and dream) constantly about my work, it occurs to me I must spend more time in all these places than here." ~ Tanith Lee

31. "It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence." ~ Tanith Lee

32. "Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these." ~ Tanith Lee

33. "Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you." ~ Tanith Lee

34. "How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on." ~ Tanith Lee

35. "He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward." ~ Tanith Lee

36. "She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood." ~ Tanith Lee

37. "The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter." ~ Tanith Lee

38. "Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain." ~ Tanith Lee

39. "Live and let love.Love and let go.Go live." ~ Tanith Lee

40. "I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all." ~ Tanith Lee

41. "She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death." ~ Tanith Lee

42. "I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world." ~ Tanith Lee

43. "Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote." ~ Tanith Lee

44. "Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")" ~ Tanith Lee

45. "The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?" ~ Tanith Lee

46. "She did this not out of fear of him, but out of pity. Because she had come to see the ultimate terrible truth behind all others. Which was that the stupidity and avarice and hatred of mankind had finally begun to make him also stupid, avaricious, hating, and cruel beyond reason. Even though he was a god, a god of love." ~ Tanith Lee

47. "Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine" ~ Tanith Lee

48. "Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite." ~ Tanith Lee

49. "She braced herself for the pain of the perfect horn breaking her heart." ~ Tanith Lee

50. "In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate." ~ Tanith Lee

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