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Jacqueline Carey Quotes | Quotes said by Jacqueline Carey

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #1

    ...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.


  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #2

    A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #3

    A nervous silence loosens tongues

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #4

    A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #5

    After you, it's all cheap tequila.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #6

    All knowledge is worth having.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #7

    All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #8

    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.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #9

    And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #10

    And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #11

    And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #12

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

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #13

    Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #14

    C'è perspicacia nella follia.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #15

    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.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #16

    I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #17

    I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #18

    I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given... she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, ... I hold in an open hand.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #19

    I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in my own veins, shaping my own secret vow and wielding it like a brand against the darkness, whispering it to myself, over and over.

    I will try to be good.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #20

    I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #21

    I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #22

    If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #23

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

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #24

    It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #25

    It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #26

    It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #27

    It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #28

    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.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #29

    It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.

  • Jacqueline Carey Quote #30

    Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair.

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