Quotes from Jacqueline Carey

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

Genius requires an audience. For all his cleverness, Delaunay was an artist and as vulnerable as any of his kind to the desire to vaunt his brilliance. And there were few, very few, people capable of appreciating his art. I did not know, then, how deep-laid a game they played with each other, nor what part in it I was to play. All I knew was that she was the audience he chose.

But to force growth is to kill it.

I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his vigil on the Longest Night. You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose. It was true.

I wanted it, I wanted it all. All the ardent beginnings and the confused between-times and the bittersweet dregs. All of the aches and sorrows, all of the soaring joys. All of it.

People believe what they are told.

In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.

I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.

No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.

The wise man, the dragon rumbled, does not play games with dragons.

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore.

Non sempre chi accondiscende è debole.

Quando l'Amore mi ha scacciata, è stata la Crudeltà ad avere pietà di me.

Ma al di sopra di tutto c'è l'amore. E se desideriamo essere più che umani, è quella la stella che dobbiamo seguire.

Questions are dangerous because they have answers

It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But there are times when a curse is more bracing than an endearment.

What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me.

Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?" Zariya considered the question. "If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man.

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of something unsaid, words we'd kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things.

All knowledge is worth having

I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.

If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.

What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said.