Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

What is fear but courage's shadow?

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

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

Genius requires an audience.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Wars come and go; politics endure.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

For every victory there is a price.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

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

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

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 might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

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

People believe what they are told.

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.

All knowledge is worth having.

Love as thou wilt