# Tanith Lee

- Quotes: 187
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee

## Books

- [Companions on the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/companions-on-the-road.md) — 6 quotes
- [Day by Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night.md) — 8 quotes
- [Death’s Master](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deaths-master.md) — 6 quotes
- [Delirium’s Mistress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress.md) — 20 quotes
- [Delusion’s Master](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/delusions-master.md) — 8 quotes
- [Drinking Sapphire Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine.md) — 6 quotes
- [East of Midnight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/east-of-midnight.md) — 4 quotes
- [Electric Forest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest.md) — 5 quotes
- [Night’s Master](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-master.md) — 8 quotes
- [Night’s Sorceries](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries.md) — 18 quotes
- [Quest for the White Witch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/quest-for-the-white-witch.md) — 25 quotes
- [The Birthgrave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave.md) — 22 quotes
- [The Castle of Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-castle-of-dark.md) — 5 quotes
- [The Storm Lord](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-storm-lord.md) — 10 quotes
- [The Winter Players](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-winter-players.md) — 3 quotes
- [Vazkor, Son of Vazkor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/vazkor-son-of-vazkor.md) — 19 quotes
- [Volkhavaar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/volkhavaar.md) — 14 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> For, though sometimes worshipping gods, the Yunea did not permit itself to stray too far onto the abstract path of sheer faith. An ambience of security was all the aristocrats required, a guarantee that fate loved them.

p. 264 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/for-though-sometimes.md)

> Ceedres was her god. To be happy, she must worship him, and let him destroy her, and take pleasure in it.

p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/ceedres-was-her.md)

> “I can’t guess,” said Olvia, “why he accepted my invitation. If I had realized he would, I would never have sent it.”

p. 26 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/i-cant-guess.md)

> Nothing can be learned without some measure of risk, and, more vital still, of patience.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/nothing-can-be-learned.md)

> Self-love is neither fantasy nor vulgar joke. The totality of the “I,” the inbuilt survival and self-protective trait, is one of the most unshakable syndromes known to psycho-science.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/self-love-is-neither.md)

> In our place, we can hardly go backward, but neither should we ignore the nakedness of humanity before the huge-wheeled vehicle of progress. We have too much to give, and far too much to learn, to throw ourselves away.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/in-our-place.md)

> But among the aristocrats whose existence could be lengthily prolonged into three or four hundred spans, boredom came to be the killer, a bizarre running down, a sort of decline and decay, nonphysical but fatal.

p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/but-among-the.md)

> In the partial silence, the ocean asserted itself, waves hurled loudly against rock, slithering back with smashed spines, then, healed by immersion, hurled forward again.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/in-the-partial.md)

> The harshest lesson of all was that which ran contrary to the teaching of his own personality.

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/the-harshest-lesson.md)

> Like many a longed-for gift, it was, in possession, unwelcome.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/like-many-a-longed-for.md)

> It was idiotic to be superstitious.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/it-was-idiotic.md)

> She had no reason not to believe in the impossible. Desperation was always ready to pray for miracles.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/electric-forest/she-had-no-reason.md)