Volkhavaar Quotes

“When I was younger and ran free in the forest, a hunter caught my mate and stunned him with a blow and locked him in a cage. I went to the place in the broad white of the spring moon; near to the hunter's fire I went, near enough to hear his man's breathing and see the flamelight catch on the knife in his hand. I gnawed through the bars of the cage and dragged at my mate, and half carried him as I would carry a cub, away into the trees. My paws were sore, I lost a tooth, my back pained me and I was afraid, but I never thought I could do otherwise. That is what love is.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“This sight was terrible, more terrible than words can convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“No one notices the nightingale till it sings.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Always sensitive, part witch, as Barbayat said, now her transplanted soul became almost unbearably receptive.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Magicians must deal in symbols, and so symbols become dear to them, and especially to me.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Shaina’s soul, unbearably confused and bruised and afraid, still marvelled at this rite of love, and tried also not to intrude, but could not help intruding, since things stood as they did.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“The air seemed full of the spell, alive with it, painful with it.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“There is a way to all things. I will make a way.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“See, moth, it doesn’t pay to flutter round the lamp. Not my lamp, maiden-moth. Not mine.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“It seemed that, despite all her cleverness, the young lady did not know how bright her unspotted soul would shine, and how fragrant would be the scent of it. It seems no one told her.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Dasyel, who had lost his shadow, suddenly again possessed one. A silver shadow, and not much like himself.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“She is my shadow, my only shadow, for see, I cast no other.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Volk made, as once before, the magic he himself had created out of thought and desire and grim determination.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Kernik Volk was cunning and clever; he said little; he was chiselled and burnished by suppressed unknowable desires.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“He had known power and the wine of sorcery intoxicated him.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“The past five nights I’ve felt the house demons watching me, watching what I do. I felt their whisperings. They also fear the magician. I will beware.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“She was troubled to find herself so joyous in the face of such dark tomorrows, weird bargains, terrible uncertainties.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“The Grey Lady said I would come begging for her help, and for her help I have come, though whether I shall beg is another matter.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Silly girl, he does not cast a shadow.”

“So, he does not. Is it his fault? If he is the magician’s slave he has no choice about what he will do in the matter of shadows. Have I a choice if Old Ash tells me to get wood?”

“Wood and shadows are not the same.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“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 irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her nature rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Men make gods in the image of themselves. All it needs is passion. Volkhavaar. My passion is as great as yours.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“He gave his life and you became his life.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“She was altered, a girl no longer, only a creature of Will and Intention.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“I have business to settle with Volk Volkhavaar, wrecker of lives and cities.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“She was well used to fear. Sometimes she might throw him a bone, or pat his head to still him, but he would not stop her returning to that city, that grey whiner at her heel.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Inside a windowless, mossy-boulder house, inside a round, closed door, lit by the candles burning in her chandelier of human skulls, sat the witch, staring in her crystal.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“Now they tasted Arkev on their tongue, Volk’s tongue, Takerna’s tongue.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“They asked each other in nervous voices what such lights and thunderings in heaven could mean, hoping, no one would answer.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar

“You could not get behind the back of Sovan Tavannazit the fair-faced, he could see every way.”
― Tanith Lee, Volkhavaar