Quotes from Jacqueline Carey

Comme ils sont dans l'erreur ceux qui voient en Elua un dieu bien délicat, fait uniquement pour être adoré par les amants aux yeux tournés vers les étoiles. Mais que les guerriers clament donc leur foi dans des dieux de sang et de tonnerre ; l'amour est dur, plus dur que l'acier - et trois fois plus cruel. Il est inexorable comme la marée, et la vie et la mort marchent sur ses brisées.

Not even the King is above the rule of law.

I eyed him. Are you really Jamaican? He returned my gaze evenly. Why do you think I'm not, sistah? I don't know, I said. I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching Cool Runnings , and I'm guessing a Disney movie about Olympic bobsledders isn't the most accurate reference material.

where battle prevails, women must grieve.

In the end, I didn't know why I loved her to the point of distraction. I knew only that I did.

Somewhat to my surprise, there were several polite golf claps. Vampires.

Amid the horrors of war, the poets seldom saw fit to mention the deadly tedium.

I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last Golden Era before the coming of Elua. Now, seeing it in action, I was not so sure.

Hey, sister buzz-kill, she said languorously to Jen. What crawled up your ass and died? I don't know, Jen retorted. What died and crawled up your ass? There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.

Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years! Jen said grimly. Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!

there is no saying how events in one place may affect what happens elsewhere, for the tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

As much as I might wish for a reason I could understand, in my heart, and not only in the dark intuitive part of me that shuddered away from such comprehension, it would never come.

Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love. I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate generating incredible amounts of anguish and misery, which I was apparently next in line to provide.

I'm going so far out on a limb here, you might as well call me a squirrel.

It, too, was empty. You might think that would be a given at this hour, but the preserve was a favorite haunt of birdwatchers, and those people are crazy.

You like him? I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him. You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.

We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.

C'è forse da stupirsi che io sia diventata quella che sono? Delaunay sostiene che fosse da sempre il mio destino... Forse ha ragione ma c'è una cosa che so con certezza: quando l'Amore mi ha scacciata, è stata la Crudeltà ad avere pietà di me.

It wouldn't last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment of the respite.

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

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

Envy and anger, two of the Seven Deadlies. I could feel them coiling deliciously in my gut, wanting to rise and consume me.

Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan. He is? I blinked. In the army ? Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.

we can but try to do good. And you did. What he's done with it is up to him.