Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes - Page 2

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• Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

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  Heart, Lazy, Trying

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• ... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

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  Islands, World, Another World

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• We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

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  Children, Knowing, Soul

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic”, p.153, Penguin

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• As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

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  Play, Space, Peril

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• You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

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  Guy Gavriel Kay (2013). “River of Stars”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

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  Believe, Men, Might

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.24, Penguin

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• You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

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  Bravery

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.157, Penguin

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• When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

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  Years, Europe, Saturn

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• What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

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  Running, Fate, Lines

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• A hand fought best when it made a fist.

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  Hands, Fists, Made

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• We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

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  Growing Up, Real, Eye

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• Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

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  Player, Chinese, World

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• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

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  Blessed, Men, Two

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• The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

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  Military, Roles, Understood

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.80, Penguin

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• Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

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  Men, Wagers, Made

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.81, Penguin

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• The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

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  Moon, Men, Desert

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• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.  Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.  Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

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  Children, Blessed, Men

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• Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

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  Kings, Woods, Blame

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

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  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Sadness

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.19, Penguin

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• Ice is for death and endings.

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  Ice

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• It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

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  Real, Knowing, Tree

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• Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

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  Night, Dragons, Rivers

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• I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

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  Sorry, Grieving, I Can

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• Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

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  Sometimes, Conclusion

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Lord of Emperors: Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic”, p.128, Penguin

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• There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.

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  Falling In Love, Sadness, People

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.19, Penguin

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