Dasyel Quotes

“The curious enchantment of learning how he was to be called had worked its own spell. Yet the smoke in the iron bowl was dissolving her thoughts, and the room was floating up over Cold Crag, and she with it. Dasyel, her mind whispered to her, half asleep, the painless mouth supping so gently, gently. She began to imagine that the little grey witch was her child at her breast; perhaps, too, his child, something loved and vulnerable, seeking nourishment, which she gave gladly and without regret…She had an urge to stroke Barbayat’s mossy head.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Here I am. Your road. Take me, or I shall be lost forever.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“However much good sense and wise cowardice your brain spoke to you, there were always the passionate demons of your heart who could speak louder.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Too many heroes had spoken with his voice; for six years he had been vowing rescue and chivalry before a crowd. Now the play was real.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“The old dreams for vengeance were clamoring, and the girl’s loveliness bewitching him and the words of all the heroes in whose armor he had ever clad himself. For a man can be one thing when he is himself, but when his past and his dreams get hold of him, there is another man altogether.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar