Jacqueline Carey > Quotes

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“All knowledge is worth having”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“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, Kushiel's Dart

“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
― Jacqueline Carey

“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Mercy

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Scion

“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“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.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss

“If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“After you, it's all cheap tequila.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Santa Olivia

“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart