Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Jacqueline Carey - Page 2

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Spontaneity is the province of youth

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Wars come and go; politics endure.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.