Paola Montonati

“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

“Gardens were an island of order imposed upon the chaos of the world.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“She’d been afraid, preparing herself, after the summons came to the farmhouse—but fear was something you mastered, not a thing that defined you. Folco told all of them that, often. You didn’t deny you felt it, you ruled”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“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