179 Quotes by Tanith Lee

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")

It's lovely. I hate it.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

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")

The sky was becoming iron, and the trees seemed to rustle uneasily at an unfelt wind, murmuring to one another, Weather is coming.

The cord that bound us drew tighter as we moved further from each other. It tautened, ready to recoil, and plunge us home, breast to breast, eye to eye.

Almost asphyxiated, I kneeled in the broken grave, retching and coughing and choking for air: all the horrors of birth.