Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety. — Jacqueline Carey 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love. I might have… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the… — 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 Copy Share Image
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if… — Jacqueline Carey 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 wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Again and again, I pushed my memories away. There were days when it was easy and days when it was hard. My… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Young men," Melisande murmured after they had left, smiling faintly. "Such a sense of honor. Is he a little bit in love with you,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a… — 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 Copy Share Image
“If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image