About Jacqueline Carey: Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.
All knowledge is worth having.
Wars come and go; politics endure.
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
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.
Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers
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.
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
I have 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.
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
After you, it's all cheap tequila.
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look i...
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 b...
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
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 Kus...
I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.
Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.
Profundity fails me.” Father Ramon's gaze rested on Loup. “And perhaps that is fitting, since words have never been your strong suit, Loup Garron. I said once that you were neither a leader nor a follower. I think perhaps you're something more ra...
Those that yield are not always weak
