Lilune Quotes

“Occasionally she managed to steal a book from the room full of books, parchments, spiders’ webs, mould, which was called the Library and kept locked as the cellars were.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“She had to brood on the truth, digest the confusion of it.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“Lilune didn’t like the drink on which she breakfasted. There were odd ingredients in it, which turned it black with a head of creamy foam. Sometimes the old women grated leaves on the surface, or flower petals, to tempt her.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“The two hags would not let her run; they liked to keep an eye on her at all times.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“The lake’s perfect surface broke for a single instant, two or three rings floated away, and then the water reformed flawlessly.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“Tears of rage stood in Lilune’s eyes. She blinked them away.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“By a well with black mud in it was a tree struck by lightning. It had been struck seven times in all, once on Lilune’s birth night.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“Lilune was fascinated. Only the biting grip of the talons in her arms kept her from going nearer to the cellar.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“She had retreated in fright up the cellar steps, severed the spelled cobweb-and the hags had rushed out upon her.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“It was the old training of her Castle-the bell which woke her, the closed shutters and dark by day which lulled her to sleep.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“Lilune screamed and screamed, and the scream seemed to grind her down until she was no more than a scream which went on and on.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“Was everything settling, grotesquely into place in her mind?”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“There had been no witch hunt in her Castle, no exposure to the sun; no threats of burning. Even the chains by which the hags bound her to the bed seemed a security.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“The Power in the Castle of the Dark, which had previously thwarted the hags, would not thwart them now. Because the Power in the Castle would desire Lilune’s escape from death, would it not?”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“She knew her direction as if she had travelled this route a hundred times. The Castle drew her to itself.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“There’s a clever precious,” said one of the old women. “All the way home on her own, the wicked darling.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse

“The smell of ivy, black-green in the raining morning, mingled with the scent of Lilune’s own tears.”
― Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse