Jacqueline Carey Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

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  Honor, Battle, May

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.

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  Hands, Fool, Claims

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• 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?

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  Sorry, Facts, Enjoy

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

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  Answers, Lord, Dangerous

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• It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

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  Despair, Companion

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• And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

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  Punishment, Bears, Fit

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.849, Macmillan

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• If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

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  Loyalty, Dies, Asks

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.648, Macmillan

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• This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

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  Fighting, Secret, Dying

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.796, Macmillan

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• Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

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  Character, Figures, Tales

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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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• 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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