The Summer Tree Quotes

“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“For some moments the two men sat quietly, each wrapped in his own thoughts, then Ivor rose. 'I should speak to Levon about tomorrow's hunt,' he said. 'Sixteen [eltors], I think.'

'At least,' the shaman said in an aggrieved tone. 'I could eat a whole one myself. We haven't feasted in a long time, Ivor.'

Ivor snorted. 'A very long time, you greedy old man. Twelve whole days...why aren't you fat?'

'Becaues,' the wisest one explained patiently, 'you never have enough food at the feasts.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“But courage was not lacking in her heart, though it might be foolhardy and unwise.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“We are the total of our longings,”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“It’s just so strange,” she explained. “I can’t even grasp what it must mean.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“We are the total of our longings [...]”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“לא הייתה אף דקות של עדינות בה, אף לא גוון של חמלה, אך נאה היתה, כמעוף החץ בטרם יהרוג.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree