Jacqueline Carey Quotes
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Jacqueline Carey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.
I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price.
Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.
Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.
No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.
It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on.
If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed to recognize a patron upon meeting.
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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
One does not reckon, at such times, the cost to one's limbs and joints; there is a limit to the pliancy of the mortal form.
Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm.
Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan."
"He is?" I blinked. "In the army?"
"Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.
"He is?" I blinked. "In the army?"
"Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
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.
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!
I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.
He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill.
A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a ... a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.