“You were the most desirable woman I’ve ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. — Jacqueline Carey Breeze Copy Share Image
“A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.” — Jacqueline Carey Surprise Copy Share Image
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a...a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.” — Jacqueline Carey Blooming flower 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
“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
“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 Emotions 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 Curse Copy Share Image
“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s… — Jacqueline Carey Husband and wife Copy Share Image
“By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do not refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor.… — Jacqueline Carey Too late Copy Share Image
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when… — Jacqueline Carey Beauty Copy Share Image
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there… — 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,… — Jacqueline Carey 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
“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
“...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
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
“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
Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus… — Jacqueline Carey Apology Copy Share Image
“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now.… — 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
“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to… — Jacqueline Carey Kiss Copy Share Image
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if… — Jacqueline Carey Belligerence Copy Share Image
![“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.” quote by Jacqueline Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/jacqueline-carey-1938_belligerence_we-are-all-these-things-pride-desire-com_2558300.jpg)