Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
14 quotes
"It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief."
"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."
"If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you."
"Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted."
"I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine."
"There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock."
"There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome."
"There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire"
"Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade"
"...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always."
"Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you"
"It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion"
"Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake."
"That which yields is not always weak."