Kushiel's Avatar
Jacqueline Carey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
“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. ”
“What is fear but courage's shadow?”
“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning. ”
“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. ”
“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”
“As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.”
“But to force growth is to kill it.”
“I understood pain. It is the price of living, and of loving well,”
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