Quotes from Jacqueline Carey

Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces.

All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. 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. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

But it's a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.

You're better off, d'Aiglemort said dryly. Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.

The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning.

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would. I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.

Ci sono persone che si sentono in imbarazzo di fronte al dolore altrui e temono di dire la cosa sbagliata; a costoro dico che non si sbaglia nell'offrire conforto, mai. Una parola gentile, un abbraccio consolatorio... queste cose sono sempre bene accette.

Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life....I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.

She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.

It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.

And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of true by mortal ambition returned to set the record straight.

Because people can be foolish," Drustan said. "And fearful of heroes not their own.

My taste is for spices, and not sweets.

Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.

For good or for ill, some people seem to love more fiercely, want more powerfully, burn more brightly.

but oh, by all the fallen stars, it hurt!

He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than enough suffering in the world without adding to the balance.

Young men, Melisande murmured after they had left, smiling faintly. Such a sense of honor. Is he a little bit in love with you, do you think? Joscelin quite despises me, I said. My lady. Oh, love and hate are two sides of the same blade, she said cheerily enough, motioning for a servant to take my cloak, and an edge finer honed than yon Cassiline's dagger divides them.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?" "I don't know, my lady," I murmured. "I suppose it depends on who is telling the tale.

Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica.