# Quote — Tanith Lee, Day by Night

> 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.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Day by Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night.md)
- Page: 12
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/day-by-night/but-among-the

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> 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)