Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer Quotes

“It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“She did this not out of fear of him, but out of pity. Because she had come to see the ultimate terrible truth behind all others. Which was that the stupidity and avarice and hatred of mankind had finally begun to make him also stupid, avaricious, hating, and cruel beyond reason. Even though he was a god, a god of love.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“In the late summer afternoon, the river lay thin and shallow among its smooth stones.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer