Tao Hansen

“Dorcas’s skin was flecked with little golden freckles, and she was so slender that I was always aware of her bones; yet she was more desirable in her imperfections than Jolenta had ever been in the lushness of her flesh.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

“She was staring at the low ceiling, and I had the feeling that there was another Severian there, the kind and even noble Severian who existed only in Dorcas’s mind. All of us, I suppose, when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.”
― Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho

“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw