The Book of the Damned Quotes

“I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Free of me, I was whole.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“What is reality after all," he said. "Did we not invent all this, are we not God, any and all of us?" He spread his own elegant hand on the table. "I could pass my hand through the wood as if through water. Any man, any woman, could do it. No chains, no bindings. It's a world of chaos restrained solely by the human mind, which then, afraid of itself, steps back and says, see this colossal machine over which I have no power at all.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Despair, the worst of all the deadly sins, since it is denial of the self, of the god-in-self, since it is so seductive, like the snow-death, so warm. Ah, who would tear himself to pieces when he might lie down in such arms, in comfort, and cease. Bless you, my despair, my dear and loving despair. So painlessly you take my pain away. Oh Father, by no means dash the cup from my lips -”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Almost asphyxiated, I kneeled in the broken grave, retching and coughing and choking for air: all the horrors of birth.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“The cord that bound us drew tighter as we moved further from each other. It tautened, ready to recoil, and plunge us home, breast to breast, eye to eye.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Who could say what went on, at sunrise, in the thick woods below the planet-searching dome of the Observatory, which saw only space and stars?”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“My husband is just outside."
"Don't be afraid," I said, "the extensive branches of his horns would never let him through the doorway.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned