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Category: Jacqueline Carey

Jacqueline Carey

It is a dangerous thing to bring a dream to life….I have watched my deepest, dearest hopes take shape, and I am not entirely sure I like the shape they have taken.

danger, dreams, hopes

Jacqueline Carey

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one’s homeland

battle, homeland, poets, sing, war

Jacqueline Carey

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

battle, loyalty, war

Jacqueline Carey

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

bitterness, fate, fear, life

Jacqueline Carey

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

self-improvement

Jacqueline Carey

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

kindness, strength

Jacqueline Carey

For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Jacqueline Carey

It’s funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

grief, sorrow, time

Jacqueline Carey

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing’s true value.

fiction, jacqueline-carey, kushiel-s-dart, love

Jacqueline Carey

I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

abstinence, eagerness, horniness, sex, virginity, youth

Jacqueline Carey

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

pretend, price, sex, silence

Jacqueline Carey

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

cause, death, secret