Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Guy Gavriel Kay - Page 2

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. ?Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. ?Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her. ?Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child. ?Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Ice is for death and endings.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.