Tanith Lee Quotes

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

Don't eat your heart.