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Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2) QUOTES

Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2) QUOTES

1 " Why hope to be happy?
Before, it had been like a tide of water, (life), not especially fast, passing over her. Not happy. Not unhappy. Indifferent. There was music and there were books. The rest was an interruption. Live second-hand. "

― Tanith Lee , Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2)

2 " Their life was aimless, that was, literally without aims. This was what living was about, they said. Not to join in, become imprisoned by rules and inhibitions. One should simply exist. "

― Tanith Lee , Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2)

3 " The smile was not for Malach. It was a twisting up of elderly male lips that showed stained, smoker's, bad false teeth bathed in Steradent once every seven or eight days. The eyes were shiny with venom. "

― Tanith Lee , Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2)

4 " My beauty,' said Althene. 'You must cease running away from yourself. One day you'll catch up. What will happen then? "

― Tanith Lee , Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2)

5 " It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms...And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept,...like ancient sisters in a tragedy. "

― Tanith Lee , Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, #2)