Quotes by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee

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.

Flames

Kissing

Love Is

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Extravagance

Subtle

Way

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

Flower

Hundred

Roots

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Children

Fairy Stories

Mother

Condemned and executioner with aren’t coupled in a primitive rite.

Executioners

Primitive

Rite

For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

Heart

Real

Writing

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

Gestures

Paint

Portraits

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

Ambition

Heart

Hope

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there’s so much in those films and I don’t care if it’s stereotyped.

Care

Film

Ifs

I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

Christian

Sometimes

Teaching

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Alive

Ambition

Ancient

Animal

Art

Atheism

Bliss

Blood

Boards

Book

Butterfly

Care

Chains

Changed

Children

Christian

Complexes

Dark

Despair

Draws

Driven

Ends

Evil

Executioners

Extravagance

Fairy Stories

Fascinated

Fate

Fiction

Film

Fire

Flames

Flesh

Flower

Force

Games

Gestures

Hamper

Happened

Hate

Heart

Hero

Hope

Horror

Horse

Hundred

I Hate

I Haven't Changed

Ifs

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Quotes by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee

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.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

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

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Condemned and executioner with aren’t coupled in a primitive rite.

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

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

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there’s so much in those films and I don’t care if it’s stereotyped.

I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

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