“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I’d spent enough time wrestling with them, but I’d never thought before about how much… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was… — 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… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn’t want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no… — 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
