Tanis, the Shadow Years was written by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel. It is the third volume in the Preludes II series, and the sixth volume in the overall Preludes series. In this novel, Tanis travels into the memory of an old, dying mage at his request, in search of the old man's long-lost love. The mage desperately wants his love to live on after him, so Tanis has to find her and return to the present before the old mage dies.
Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or years:
“The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall,
Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals,
Focus the tragic melancholy of the bright stare
Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.