The Fionavar Tapestry Quotes

“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“We are the total of our longings, he had written. But Kevin was a song-writer, not a poet, and he never did use it.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“Lancelot was following, slowly, on the dark and narrow path. All about him and from high above, the mighty trees of Pendaran Wood were letting fall their green leaves, gently, on a night in the midst of summer, to honour the passage of the man.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry

“Arthur had his hands in the scarred fur of the dog's ruff. They looked at each other, man and dog; Paul found that he could not watch. Looking away, he heard Arthur say, "Farewell, my gallant joy. You would go with me, I know, but it may not be. You will be needed yet, great heart. There…may yet come a time when we need not part.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Fionavar Tapestry