Raluca

“Free of me, I was whole.”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Death is God," I said. "Life is Man. The day we are born begins our love affair with death.”
― Tanith Lee

“Despair, the worst of all the deadly sins, since it is denial of the self, of the god-in-self, since it is so seductive, like the snow-death, so warm. Ah, who would tear himself to pieces when he might lie down in such arms, in comfort, and cease. Bless you, my despair, my dear and loving despair. So painlessly you take my pain away. Oh Father, by no means dash the cup from my lips -”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned

“Who could say what went on, at sunrise, in the thick woods below the planet-searching dome of the Observatory, which saw only space and stars?”
― Tanith Lee, The Book of the Damned