Quotes by Jacqueline Carey

About Jacqueline Carey:

Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
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An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of someth...

Jacqueline Carey

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

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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

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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 give...

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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.

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We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

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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

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I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

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To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

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

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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.

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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

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Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

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Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

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

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

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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

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A nervous silence loosens tongues

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Author Bio

  • NameJacqueline Carey
  • DescriptionAmerican fiction writer
  • Born1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist