Lir Quotes

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Tanith Lee
“Magic, the elemental thing he himself had come to possess through the harp, had made him sensitive to another’s magic.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“There was no leisure to think.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The forest was swirling with something that appeared to be sheer sorcery made visible.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Aching, yet indifferent to it, Lir found himself in a deeper dark.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The man in the street reacted to his voice, for the voice of Lir had music in it.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Somehow, the thin bright notes of the harp would find the song, and when the moment was ripe, Lir would begin to sing it.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“He lay down and slipped into shallows, multicoloured waters of his sleep.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Lir blinked, and in the blink, had a sudden mental image of the sun’s golden face, cruel and snarling and maned by rays. And with an arrow shot through its forehead.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“To begin with, he had accepted the omens and his own curiosity, and continued north in amused obedience to them. Now, the terrain itself put a spell on him, for it was beautiful.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“When the woods absorbed him, he came to feel he was the only human in the whole of the landscape: enchanted, disoriented, free.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“He went off into the forest lit by the glint of their smiles. Somehow he guessed, without turning, that their smiles went out the instant his back was turned.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Magic had come to him so naturally and cleanly through the harp, he had never properly credited any other sort.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Graves and other grim uncanny situations had always left him unmoved.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“I have a choice, he told himself. I think I have a choice. But if I turn aside, I’ll always wonder what I turned aside from.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The sight of the Castle struck inside him like a solitary chord.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The cypress shadow pooled like ink and from the middle of the ink there glared back at him an enormous brassy face.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The harp was a part of him. It was as if he had left his right hand, or a fragment of his soul behind him.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“It is the Castle that’s to blame, not the girl.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Lir accepted that the thing had garnered influence over him before, but then he had been unprepared. He would have to resist.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The trained voice went to every corner of the marketplace.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Odd to recall that not so long ago he had been rejoicing in the carelessness of his wandering minstrel’s life and his lack of burdens.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“He struck a chord, coldly curious what would happen, and if the demonic force would take over his will on this occasion.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Was it the force of what lay in the earth pushing him back?”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“The sense of dread came to him in steady pulses. If anything, it would be of assistance to him, for, as the dread increased, he would know he approached his goal accurately-whatever the goal was.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Pale and shiny as a fox’s coat in the moonlight, that hair of his.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“Can’t you tell he’s near, the foxy? Can’t you feel it?”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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Tanith Lee
“It appeared to him that no hint of the supernatural lingered, or maybe he had grown immune to it.”
Tanith Lee, Dark Castle, White Horse
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