Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

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• A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in…
• We are the total of our longings.
• Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it…
• But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?
• There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
• Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.
• Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
• You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
• It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
• One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
• Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
• What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
• A hand fought best when it made a fist.
• There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging…
• Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the…
• In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.
• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one…
• My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that…
• We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.
• The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

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