# Quote — Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave

> I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [The Birthgrave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave.md)
- Page: 155
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/i-raised-my-arms

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> “All my life,” I said, “knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.”

p. 379 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/all-my-life.md)

> “When will they fight?” I asked.
>
> “Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.”
>
> I laughed. “I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.”

p. 333 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/when-will-they.md)

> Vazkor had picked his creatures well—narrow, unintelligent men, good fighters, unafraid because they had no imagination, loyal because they responded to their own sense, and until now, there had always been enough food and wine, women and prestige; trustworthy in this last extremity because the old order had been good to them, and Vazkor seemed able to restore it.

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/vazkor-had-picked.md)