Quotes from Guy Gavriel Kay

But what did one own if life, if love, could be taken away to darkness? Was it all not just ... a loan, a leasehold, transitory as candles?

I cannot speak for those who come after, or what the world will be. We are not made that way.

Mais il ne la trahirait pas, non, il ne la trahirait jamais. C'était bien peu, en vérité, mais d'un autre côté c'était beaucoup. L'existence d'un homme s'évaluait à ses paroles et à ses actes.

In summer darkness, stars in her south-facing window, she makes - or accepts - a decision in her heart. There is fear again with it, and sorrow, but also a kind of easing of disquiet and distress, which is what acceptance is said to bring, is it not?

It was upon them. Who knows love? Who says he knows love? What is love, tell me. An old song. A child's song.

Women have usually been better at this than men, haven't they? Pursuing these subtleties?" "Women have no choice but to be this way if we want any kind of influence, or simply a little control of our own lives.

Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back. We live in the light that comes to us.

It was the doing, he learned quickly enough—in the first inn that refused to serve him his requested flask of Senzio green wine—of the pinch-buttocked, joy-killing priests of Eanna. The

They'd been painful against her spine…she's more accustomed to them now. A person, a woman, can adapt to more than she might of thought she could; what she's unsure about is when that stops being a virtue and turns to something else.. leaving you too much changed, undefined, unanchored… like a fisherman's empty boat drifting on a river, with no way to be returned to where it belongs.

There comes a point when life is not worth enduring if one steps back.

Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.

start across country to Erlond, where his own people had settled. In a still-forming colony like that one there would be many men with stories they didn't want told. That was how a people's boundaries expanded, how they moved on from starting points. Questions didn't get asked. You could make a new life. Again.

Mais l'alchimie a toujours été un art ésotérique. Je le savais lorsque j'ai commencé à l'étudier. Je suis… réconcilié avec ce savoir. J'exulterai en mon for intérieur, dans le plus grand secret. »

If it makes you feel better, dying here, I'm not a farmboy

increasingly little

One of the pleasures of dealing with intelligent men, Lin Fong decided, watching seven people ride out the eastern gate in early-morning sunlight, was how much did not have to be spoken.

C'étaient tous deux des hommes taciturnes et discrets. Ils le laissèrent à ses réflexions, gardèrent les leurs par-devers eux, lui offrant leur présence en gage de sécurité et d'amitié, tandis qu'ils arpentaient rues et places.

Il était sincère, et brave, mais on apprendrait évidemment ce qu'il savait, si l'on était assez astucieux pour le trouver et le soumettre à la question. Les hommes avaient parfois une foi touchante en leur capacité à soutenir des interrogatoires menés par des professionnels.

I want to kill someone," Tai said. A pause to consider this. "I am familiar with the desire. It is sometimes effective. Not invariably.

the religious course left you with arrogant superiors and surrounded by frustrated women. The struggles for trivial advantage in a closed-off, overwrought retreat could create hatreds and rage fiercer than on a battlefield, and they festered like untreated wounds.

We can never truly know the path we have not walked.

It was interesting, I suppose it still is, how vicious men can take power and be accepted, supported by those they govern, if they bring with them a measure of peace. If granaries are full and citizens fed. If war doesn't bring starvation

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

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