Starless Quotes

“The enemy of fear is not courage,” Jahno translated for her. “The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?” Zariya considered the question. “If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“What is a warrior’s first and greatest weapon, young Khai?” “It is his mind, Elder Brother,” I said.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“You should not be here, the forest whispered behind us. You do not belong here.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. “Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?” “A little.” Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. “You are so very serious, my shadow.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind’s example and let it guide you into those spaces.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“In the desert we say Make haste slowly.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“The enemy of fear is not courage,” Jahno translated for her. “The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard. Tonight I am afraid, but I take heart from the love I bear for each of you, and for our beloved brother Keeik, whose sacrifice we grieve and honor. For your sakes, I abide. For you, I endure. And when I bear this in mind, this baseless fear loses its power over me. Remember this.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Jahno asked with a stymied scholar’s anguish.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“I did not like this place. Everything about it conspired to say, You do not belong here, you are not welcome here.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“but oh, by all the fallen stars, it hurt!”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Shambloth the Great Protector, whom you know as the Inchoate Terror,”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“and I didn’t know if I was proud or indignant that he hadn’t noticed.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“slipped past them to return to the palace to engage in pointless speculation with Zariya.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless

“training in the Fortress of the Winds, I’d never developed a full appreciation for the power of disguise. Oh, I understood it on an intellectual level—it was Brother Yarit’s disguise that had allowed him to take Brother Jawal by surprise in the Trial of Pahrkun—but I’d never felt it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Starless