Heart-Beast Quotes

“There is no necessity for nervousness," said the turbaned man, the light catching like sequins in the moon craters of his cheeks. "Your hand shows a calm and sanguine life. You will never want. You will never suffer any serious illness or misfortune. You will marry where you wish and where it is auspicious. You will have one child, a boy, easily and without peril. You will live into a long and comfortable old age." He released her hand and, rather astonishing her, it dropped down limp and cold. "You will," he said, "Be very unhappy.”
― Tanith Lee, Heart-Beast

“Tonight is a night of full moon,” she said. “A night of lovers.”
― Tanith Lee, Heart-Beast

“Night bloomed over the sea in a huge arc of strangely-lighted black. Stars and moon, trails of phosphorus along the rollers of the waves, combined to give the sombre air a kind of silver aura.”
― Tanith Lee, Heart-Beast

“We strive after meaning in our lives. We try to make patterns. Everything must have a goal. Sometimes this isn’t so. Some things merely are. They come to be, they run their course, and are done with.”
― Tanith Lee, Heart-Beast

“To wait implies that what you desire will be yours in the end.”
― Tanith Lee, Heart-Beast