“where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts” — Jacqueline Carey Danger Copy Share Image
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.” — Jacqueline Carey Cats Copy Share Image
“It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to… — Jacqueline Carey Destiny Copy Share Image
“You were the most desirable woman I’ve ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“My thanks, Master.” He waved his hand. “It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for… — Jacqueline Carey Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day.” — Jacqueline Carey Service Copy Share Image
“The night court taught me to serve, and Delauney taught me to think; but from Melisande Shahrizai, I learned how to hate.” — Jacqueline Carey Night court Copy Share Image
“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 Every moment Copy Share Image
“For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price.” — Jacqueline Carey Dark eyes Copy Share Image
What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then? — 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 Compassion 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 Death Copy Share Image
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Greet the sky and live, blossom!... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs… — Jacqueline Carey Death Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Baroque Copy Share Image
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not 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 Couples Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas,… — Jacqueline Carey Glory days Copy Share Image
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.” — Jacqueline Carey History Copy Share Image
“He nodded at Josceline and me. "Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.” — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.” — Jacqueline Carey Mortal Copy Share Image
“I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined… — Jacqueline Carey Nature Copy Share Image
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear — Jacqueline Carey Dream Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey Circling Copy Share Image
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?” — 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 Children Copy Share Image
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. — Jacqueline Carey Courtesan Copy Share Image
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to… — Jacqueline Carey Bards Copy Share Image
