"There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Summer Tree)

"In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana)

"'If that is a three-piece suit, my image of you is going to be irrevocably shattered.'

Wordlessly, Dave unbuttoned his overcoat to reveal the shattering navy vest beneath.

'Angels and ministers of grace defend us!' Kevin exclaimed, crossing himself with the wrong hang while making the sign against evil with the other. Paul Schafer laughed. 'Actually,' Kevin said. 'It is nice. Why didn't you buy it in your size?'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later Razeil galloped up, uneasy on a horse at speed, and the Supreme Lord of Cathal made him write it down."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I'll beat you up. I swear I will.'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Praise be to the Weaver and all the gods!' said Shalhassan of Cathal. 'Finally she's done something adult!'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.
 Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.
 Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.
 Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.
 Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana)

"For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing a task properly if it was worth doing at all. That was part of his problem, of course; that was why he ended up with so much to do. It was also the source of his own particular pride: he knew--and he was certain they knew that there was no one else who could handle details such as these as well as he."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (A Song for Arbonne)

"Dreamer of the dream, she now was, but there was much waiting involved and never, ever, had Kimberly been called a patient person."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Come on, little brother!" someone shouted, and then Dave Martynuik thundered by, an axe of Brennin held high, a golden Prince racing beside him and thirty men behind."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Twelve!' Cared and Erron shouted together from the bar top. The match had obviously been going on for some time. diarmuid tossed his tankard back to the serving girl while tegid hurled his over his shoulder; a patron ducked quickly and tipped over the table on which he and other men were standing. Had been standing.

It was too much for Kevin Laine.

A moment later the North Keep duo were quite inexcusably thrown to the grown by an attack from behind. It hadn't been subtle; they'd been simply run over. As the howls and screams rose to unprecendented levels, Kevin, mounted firmly on Dave's broad shouldes, turned to the pair from the Boar.

'Have at you!' he cried.

But Tegid had other ideas. With a howl of joy, he rushed, open-armed, toward Dave, grabbed him in a titanic bear hug, and, quite unable to do anything so complex as stop, toppled the four of them to the floor in a tangled, sodden heap."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"It seemed that nothing, really, could induce in Diarmuid a sense of responsibility. "
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'There's another thing,' Paul said. 'I don't need a jacket. The winter doesn't touch me. For what that's worth.'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"Escapades such as the one of the previous spring, when she had outraced his envoys to Paras Derval, could no longer be countenanced. He had never, in fact, received a wholly or even moderately satisfactory account of the affair. Not that he really expected one given with whom he was dealing."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"And Shalhassan of Cathal realized in that moment, standing between the fair brother and the dark, that he was not going to lead this war after all."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Brightly woven, Diar,' Aileron said. And then dazzled them all with the warmth of his smile."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'I am served,' said Aileron, with a heavy emphasis, 'by advisers of limited capacities.'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Shall we three hunt wolves of the Dark in Gwen Ystrat?'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"It was Aileron who saw the light blaze in Arthur's face. The Warrior leaped from his horse down into the road and, at the top of his great voice, cried 'Cavall!'

Bracing his legs, he opened wide his arms and was knocked flying, nonetheless, by the wild leap of the dog. Over and over they rolled, the dog yelping in intoxicated delight, the Warrior mock growling in his chest. . . .
'This is' asked Aileron with gentle irony, 'your dog?'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"'Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.'"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

"Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls."
— Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana)

"She lifted her hands and closed them around his head... and it seemed to Catriana in that moment as if that newborn trialla in her soul began to sing. Of trials endured and trials to come, of doubt and dark and all the deep uncertainties that defined the outer boundaries of mortal life, but with love now present at the base of it all, like light, like the first stone of a rising tower. "
— Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana)

""If that is a three-piece suit, my image of you is going to be irrevocably shattered."— Guy Gavriel Kay"
— Guy Gavriel Kay (The Wandering Fire)

""'If that is a three-piece suit, my image of you is going to be irrevocably shattered."— Guy Gavriel Kay"
— Guy Gavriel Kay