Cyrion Quotes

“Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“I have been clinging to a corpse, thinking I should lose it. Now it seems I am condemned not to. How ungrateful.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“I see you are beginning to read me like a scroll.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“What I told you, and what is true, may not be one and the same.”

“You do delight me. The thought of engineering more rumors seemed unexciting, not to say heavy-handed.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“I have come back into the desert in sore need of the disciplines I once learned here, things which fail me from lack of practice.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Cyrion, escaped prey, stood immobile, the sword free of its sheath and poised, almost delicately, in his right hand. His face betrayed only the mildest surprise at what was before him, a being surely minted in hell.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“I have been called many things, never savior.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“To satisfy the curious is not our fate. Our fate is darker and more savage. We await a savior. We await him in bondage.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“To snuff a candle is pleasing. But to finish you, my dear, is to blot out a sun. How could I resist it?”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Gods and angels are known for their transience, their infidelity.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“The young woman, who was no one’s lady now save her own, pealed with a vibrant and wholesome mirth.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Why is it,” cried the young woman in obvious chagrin, “everyone believes a plain girl will leap at the first man who wants her?”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“You may glamorize snakes from the ears of King Malban and you will hear nothing from me but polite applause.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Sameness is a fearsome thing.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Every sweet thing I see reminds me of some other thing, which is bitter.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Confound you, what are you? A daisy crossed with a razor-some kind of hybrid of Heaven and the Pit?”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“The combination of supernal blamelessness and demoniacal sweetness had never been nor blatant. For a moment Roilant was agitated. Almost repelled. This man he had given stewardship of his lifes and fortunes, what in the name of God was he?”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“He met Roilant’s gaze with two eyes more clear than the clearest winter sea, and rather colder.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Rumors faster like barnacles around any event, tending to take familiar shapes.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“My hair, said Cyrion in a confiding tone, “was once the gold of buttercups. The ghastly distresses of my life turned it white when I was a boy of seventeen. A thing not generally known. I hope you will keep the secret.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Her goal had been before her, clear, uncluttered-now this. The pure order of her will was outraged by the mess.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Mevary, who was in many ways a fool had still the quick immediate wit of those incapable of prolonged deduction.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“This is all such delightful fun,” said a young voice, not only musical but undeniably masculine. “However, every treat must come to an end.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Being lazy, full of himself; these elements also helped to render him docile.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“For the goddess was only a figment of Valia’s inner pantheon, which she herself ruled, an adjunct to Valia. As magic was. Which might explain why her talent was so poor.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“It was the visage of a skull, draped by a transparent shroud of skin, except for the colors which the fire painted on it, now amber, now turquoise, and now the greenest jade.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Seldom had a potential murderess been so reverenced and pitied by his victim.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“The complexity and danger of the enterprise were nevertheless, considered essential to the plan as a whole: To discover what he wished to, by his own and undetectable means, while leaving as much chaos and doubt in his wake as he might.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“Cyrion in stone was to be a fleeting concept, not a permanent condition.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion

“The long hennaed brows rose like the wings of angels. His look, even in disguise, was no quintessentially Cyrionesque that Roilant was defeated by it, and grinned.”
― Tanith Lee, Cyrion