Kushiel's Dart Quotes

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Wars come and go; politics endure.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Garner knowledge, by any means possible”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“For every victory there is a price.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart