Guy Gavriel Kay

“Winter was coming.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“There are so many stories, she thinks, and most of them end up lost.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“But what did one own if life, if love, could be taken away to darkness? Was it all not just ... a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more.…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“She lifted her hands and closed them around his head... and it seemed to Catriana in that moment as if that newborn…

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“He wanted to achieve something of surpassing beauty that would last. A creation that would mean that he--the mosaic worker Caius Crispus…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog,"…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate,…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“ Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“There is always grief. It is joy that is the rarest thing,”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

— Guy Gavriel Kay