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Category: Tanith Lee

If they had said my writing wasn’t good enough, fair enough, that’s an opinion. But to say it’s too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

Good, Writing, Opinion

I’m not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I’m old, perhaps.

coming-of-age, the-silver-metal-lover, young-adult

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.

death, immortality, life

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

immortality, love

Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. (“Israbel”)

Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.

Azhrarn the Beautiful,” said Chuz lovingly, “it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

demons, love, madness

Israbel smiled once more. It was difficult to take your gaze away from her mouth – unless you looked into her eyes; and then you could only look at those… (“Israbel”)

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

fantasy, irony, storytelling

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

school, teacher, teaching

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

death-s-master, flat-earth, flesh, magician, soul, tanith-lee