Tanith By Choice Quotes

“Hope is a punishable offence. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.”
― Tanith Lee, Tanith By Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee

“It is the ability to perform for days or weeks like balanced and cheerful automata, when some substrata, something upon which our codes or our hopes had firmly rested has given way. Men who lose their wives or their God are quite capable of behaving in this manner, for an indefinite season. After which the collapse is brilliant and total.”
― Tanith Lee, Tanith By Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee

“He looked up then, and into my eyes. His own were very black, sensuous, carnal, earthbound eyes, full of orthodox sins, and extremely young in a sense that had nothing to do with physical age, but with race, I suppose, the youngness of ancient things, like Pan himself, quite possibly.”
― Tanith Lee, Tanith By Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee