Paola Montonati

“An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune’s wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“The sailors say the rain misses the cloud even as it falls through light or dark into the sea. I miss her like that as I fall through my life, through time, the chaos of our time. I dream she is alive even now, but there is nothing to give weight or value to that, it is only me, and what I want to be true. It is only longing. We can want things so much sometimes. It is the way we are.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“those around a dying person, sometimes loving that person, had their own needs, and these were also to be addressed if you were in the world to heal.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“But when did the young people become clever? Isn’t that supposed to take time?” Guidanio doesn’t smile. “Wisdom does,” he says. “People can be clever at any age.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago