Quotes from Jacqueline Carey

I have learned, since, that there are sailors who think a woman's presence aboard ship to be a sign of ill luck. Elua be thanked, D'Angelines are spared such idiotic superstitions.

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

Life ended, but politics continued.

Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.

There are wounds of the spirit as grave as wounds of the flesh, and they, too, need healing.

It was a truth of the heart and it owed nothing to reason.

super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings—or semi-human beings—depends on our feelings. Without

The defeated always remember.

There is a madness in love.

There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.

Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.

É mais duro ver outro sofrer do que suportarmos nós o sofrimento.

I will be your friend, then, for the ancient Hellenes said a good friend may stand between a man and his moira. Do you know what that means?' 'Fate.' I answered unthinking...

How strange, how compelling a pain; to cause injury to a loved one.

You are a veritable poet of desire

A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a...a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.

One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one's body are connected.

They would be heirs to the D'Angeline throne instead, half-Pictish scions of Elua, raised to House Courcel. I will admit, for one born and bred to Terre d'Ange, it was a discomfiting thought.

There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage.

As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.

whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn't want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history and geography.

Life goes on even at the worst of times, and there are some ways no one ever grows up, no matter how long they live or how many lifetimes

I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is the highest form of wisdom." I made a broad gesture. "Today the sun is shining and we are engaged in a pleasant pursuit in the company of friends. If that is wisdom, let us be content.

I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings—or semi-human beings—depends on our feelings. Without them, we were dead inside.