# Quote — Tanith Lee, Night’s Sorceries

> Finding in himself a profound strain of yearning, Pereban had mistaken it for religion. He entered the temple and dedicated himself to the worship of the goddess. Thereafter her statue—a roughhewn lump of rock with painted blobs for eyes and black wool for hair—so disappointed him that he kneeled to it, and beat himself regularly, every morning.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [Night’s Sorceries](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries.md)
- Page: 139
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Night's_Sorceries_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries/finding-in-himself

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> His creed, both cosmic and precise, had a flexible simplicity which, usually, was soon harnessed and complicated by his devotees, or those who had picked up some smattering.

p. 182 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries/his-creed-both.md)

> “May the gods take note,” said he, “that it is my kind heart brought me to this predicament.” The gods, of course, did no such thing.

p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries/may-the-gods.md)

> The demons had invented love. There needs to be said no more.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/nights-sorceries/the-demons-had.md)