Tigana Quotes

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Ice is for death and endings.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“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

“The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.”
― 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

“... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana