Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to… — Jacqueline Carey Bards Copy Share Image
“If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life… — Jacqueline Carey Anger Copy Share Image
“How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“for the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.” — Jacqueline Carey Children Copy Share Image
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. — Jacqueline Carey Courtesan Copy Share Image
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette… — Jacqueline Carey Psychology Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“I don't think, before that moment, that he truly grasped the nature of what I was. He knew, of course; had always… — Jacqueline Carey Nature Copy Share Image
“I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; two realms, two rulers, united in… — Jacqueline Carey Couples Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas,… — Jacqueline Carey Glory days Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.” — Jacqueline Carey Mortal Copy Share Image
“Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d’Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?” — Jacqueline Carey Beauty Copy Share Image
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear — Jacqueline Carey Dream Copy Share Image
“I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined… — Jacqueline Carey Nature Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey Circling Copy Share Image
Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with… — Jacqueline Carey Ale Copy Share Image
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private.… — Jacqueline Carey Calm Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Baroque Copy Share Image
“Greet the sky and live, blossom!... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs… — Jacqueline Carey Death Copy Share Image
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image