The Silver Metal Lover Quotes

“He was singing, and so I heard him, and so I found him. The crowd about
him was thick, but I saw his face at last, between their shoulders.
It was like
the second time I ever saw him.

Oh my love, my love.
His face, bowed to the
guitar as he made love to it.

There’s a kind of beam, a ray that he draws to
him. He draws all the energy of the crowd, and contains it within him, and
then focuses it out again upon them.
A ray like a star, a sun.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“So I stood before the mirror, and she made me up. She was pale as snow,
with a soft fever-rouge in the cheeks.
Her lids became silver from a tube of
eyeshadow. And then she made my lashes thick and black as midnight bushes from a tube of mascara.
We painted each other’s mouth, sensual, alluring, a translucent amber.
The fever gave us the steadiest hands we ever had.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“My mother looked at me, her long turquoise nail on the lift button. “Darling, I do hope, since you haven’t yet found a lover, that you’re masturbating regularly, as I suggested.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover