# Quote — Tanith Lee, Delirium’s Mistress

> “Now, when the man struck you, if you had only said to him, ‘strike me again for good measure, I have no quarrel with you,’ perhaps he would have struck you, or perhaps not, but the affair would have been finished with, and you at liberty to go on as you wished.”
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> “Master, I see it is a parable, but nevertheless, some men, being allowed to strike another unchecked, will make a habit of striking there. Is that not also an interruption?”
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> “Life is a series of blows,” said the priest, “birth and death being the greatest of these, but between them, many of lesser sort. And is it possible to return or mend every smack of fate and life? Sit down beneath a storm, for if you shout at it, it will not hear you.”

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Delirium’s Mistress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress.md)
- Page: 340
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## More from this book

> Fashions change. Even in mythology.

p. 375 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress/fashions-change-even.md)

> “I rule none of it,” called Atmeh to heaven. “Listen to me, you peerless soulless gods, I rule nothing and no one, and soon, soon I will outshine you, for I will be a mortal. And one day, as you never can, I and mine shall inherit the earth.”

p. 392 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress/i-rule-none.md)

> And Chuz lowered his eyes, his matchless eyes. He, magnificent, a Lord of Darkness, held in his arms now a mortal woman. As Azhrarn had discovered, that was like clasping the tides of the sea, the winds of heaven. How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress/and-chuz-lowered.md)