... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate, true friendship.… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck” — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
