“Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Profundity fails me.” Father Ramon's gaze rested on Loup. “And perhaps that is fitting, since words have never been your strong suit, Loup Garron. I said once that you were neither a leader nor a follower. I think perhaps you're… — 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
“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
“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
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
“for the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
“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
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
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
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share
