Coira Quotes

“Coira’s skin, like her mother’s, was too pale and did not take the sun. Her eyes were changeable, never blue, but sometimes a strange gray, or even black, the iris and pupil seeming all one. Her mouth was too well-shaped for her age, precocious and red, although her cheeks were always colorless. Coira looked the younger maid had said, as if she’d had been eating pomegranates greedily-or had put on the salve from an adult’s cosmetic jar. Her hair, though, was a splendor. Heavy silk that shone, and black as a crow’s wing.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“The occasional scurrying servant or wandering lover paid no attention to a small child in white. She was neither often seen or known.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“The child felt her mortal smallness, and thought she would not be heard. She had been frequently ignored.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“Years fell from her with the clatter of armor.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“Outside, in the corridors, and in the back of her skull, the crone heard the child she had met noiselessly crying, needles of her smashed heart raining from her eyes as she wandered about.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“Coira felt she would soon fall into the mirror-pool, whirtl down for ever and be lost.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow

“Coira, tread up on the world with silver feet, and bring back with you the snow-drops and the asphodel and the young green corn.”
― Tanith Lee, White as Snow