# Quote — Tanith Lee, Drinking Sapphire Wine

> “Like most loners,” said Moddik, “you carry the seeds of violent authority. Loners need to be bossy. They quickly learn it’s the only method they have of shoving people off their backs.”

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Drinking Sapphire Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine.md)
- Page: 137
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Drinking_Sapphire_Wine_(1977)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/like-most-loners

## More from this book

> Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/somewhere-in-me-was.md)

> I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/i-see-you.md)

> “Well now,” he said, “was I as good as you were when you were me?”

p. 152 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/well-now-he-said.md)