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.

Tanith Lee

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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

Tanith Lee

Tags: love



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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Tanith Lee

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

Tanith Lee

Tags: school teaching teacher



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When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise...

Tanith Lee

Tags: daybreak



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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Tanith Lee


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Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.

Tanith Lee


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Pale beauty stands aghast,” he said, “at the vulgar ugliness of men.

Tanith Lee


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She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.

Tanith Lee


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

Tanith Lee

Tags: young-adult coming-of-age the-silver-metal-lover



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