Jacqueline Carey Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

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  Too Much, Awareness, Pleasure

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.31, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Play, Events, Goes On

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

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  Love, Form, Highest

  Jacqueline Carey (2012). “Kushiel's Mercy: Treason's Heir: Book Three”, p.205, Hachette UK

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

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  Wedding, Dark, Mirrors

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• It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

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  Wise, Matter

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• But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

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  Mistake, Errors, Gross

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

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  Hands, Cold, Poignant

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

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  Stupid, Blame, Speak

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• For every victory there is a price.

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  Victory, Kushiel's Dart

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• Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

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  Bears, Chains, Hardest

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2255, Macmillan

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• What is fear but courage's shadow?

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  Shadow

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

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  Loss, True Value, Kushiel's Dart

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• Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

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  Hurt, Mean, Boys

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• After you, it's all cheap tequila.

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  Tequila

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• Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

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  Stars, Fall, Snakes

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.697, Macmillan

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• What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

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  Kids, Now And Then, Indulge

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• Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

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  Tree, Sunlight

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• We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

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  Pay, Remember, Sin

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.423, Pan Macmillan

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• One must gauge one's trust carefully.

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  Gauges

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

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  House, Doe, Born

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.879, Macmillan

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• If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

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  Kings, Fall, Grace

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.513, Macmillan

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