Tanith Lee Quotes

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.