“Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life… — Jacqueline Carey Anger Copy Share Image
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. — Jacqueline Carey Beauty Copy Share Image
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire — Jacqueline Carey Desire Copy Share Image
“It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. "Come… — Jacqueline Carey Consolation Copy Share Image
It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the… — Jacqueline Carey Anguish Copy Share Image
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private.… — Jacqueline Carey Calm Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with… — Jacqueline Carey Ale Copy Share Image
That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made… — Jacqueline Carey Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“I don't think, before that moment, that he truly grasped the nature of what I was. He knew, of course; had always… — Jacqueline Carey Nature Copy Share Image
“I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you… — Jacqueline Carey Children Copy Share Image
“We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“You're better off," d'Aiglemort said dryly. "Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.” — Jacqueline Carey Faith Copy Share Image
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others — Jacqueline Carey Happiness Copy Share Image
“If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan." "He is?" I blinked. "In the army ?" "Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.” — Jacqueline Carey Afghanistan Copy Share Image
“As ever, his grief made my heart ache. "Ambition is a dangerous thing," I murmured. "One can harbor it unknowing, only to… — Jacqueline Carey Ambition Copy Share Image
“We knew each other’s histories and secrets, hopes and fears and dreams. When you need to get good and drunk, that’s the… — Jacqueline Carey Dreams Copy Share Image
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette… — Jacqueline Carey Psychology Copy Share Image
“whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn’t want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history… — Jacqueline Carey Emotions Copy Share Image
