Anna Medea Quotes

“The awful episodes that had marked the coming and going of the other governesses had been absent from the term of Anna Medea. Yes, that was her name. Most odd.”
― Tanith Lee, The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales

“In my profession difficulties are not unheard of. They are there to be conquered.”
― Tanith Lee, The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales

“There she stood, lissome and fearlessly alluring in a foreign, almost antique way-like something on a Greek vase-while he ranted.”
― Tanith Lee, The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales

“As she turned towards the door, Anna Medea’s black, slanting eyes had seemed to give off a peculiar flash, like those of some wild beast caught by a lamp in a thicket.”
― Tanith Lee, The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales