Paola Montonati

“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

“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

“People were ferociously poor. Farmers were abused everywhere, taxed mercilessly to keep the artisans and merchants in the cities happier with their lords—and so less dangerous.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago