Jacqueline Carey

Wars come and go; politics endure.

— Jacqueline Carey

Genius requires an audience.

— Jacqueline Carey

“C'è perspicacia nella follia.”

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After you, it's all cheap tequila.

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What is fear but courage's shadow?

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That which yields is not always weak.

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“People believe what they are told.”

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For every victory there is a price.

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

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The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

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I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

— Jacqueline Carey

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

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

— Jacqueline Carey

“Let the dreamers and the seers keep watch. It is what we do.”

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“My thanks, Master.” He waved his hand. “It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for…

— Jacqueline Carey

“The night court taught me to serve, and Delauney taught me to think; but from Melisande Shahrizai, I learned how to hate.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.”

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“It wouldn’t last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment…

— Jacqueline Carey

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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“For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price.”

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“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

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“He nodded at Josceline and me. "Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.”

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“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now.…

— Jacqueline Carey

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus…

— Jacqueline Carey

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if…

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“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to…

— Jacqueline Carey

“Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more…

— Jacqueline Carey

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know…

— Jacqueline Carey

I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly…

— Jacqueline Carey

“By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor.…

— Jacqueline Carey

“By morning, Joscelin was resigned. "You know, betimes I think you are a little mad, Imriel no Montreve," he said to me…

— Jacqueline Carey

“An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was…

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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…

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Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you…

— Jacqueline Carey

“I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that…

— Jacqueline Carey

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no…

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“I eyed him. "Are you really Jamaican?" He returned my gaze evenly. "Why do you think I'm not, sistah?" "I don't know,"…

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“Profundity fails me.” Father Ramon's gaze rested on Loup. “And perhaps that is fitting, since words have never been your strong suit,…

— Jacqueline Carey