Jacqueline Carey Quotes

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• Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Pain, Broken

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• All knowledge is worth having

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  Philosophy

  Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, Macmillan

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• There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

  Jacqueline Carey

  Lust, Desire, Made

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.91, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Loyalty, Stars, Pride

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.456, Pan Macmillan

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• Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

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  Warrior, Love Is, Blood

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

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• Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

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  Hate, Two Sides, Blades

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Lying, Asking, Answers

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2289, Macmillan

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• There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

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  Variation, Patterns, Endless

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Those that yield are not always weak

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  Yield, Weak

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• Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pain, Eternal

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.770, Macmillan

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• Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

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  Moving, Crossroads, Without You

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

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  Waiting, Enemy, Allies

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.369, Macmillan

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• If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

  Jacqueline Carey

  Ifs

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Love Is, Life And Death, Tides

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

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• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

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  Pain, Heart, Flesh

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.127, Macmillan

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• It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

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  Thinking, Civilization, Lines

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.390, Macmillan

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• Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Love, Children, Loss

  Jacqueline Carey (2012). “Kushiel's Scion: Treason's Heir: Book One”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

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  Pity, Cruelty, Casts

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

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  Children, Soon Enough, Young

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Naamah's Blessing”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pain, Loss, Blessing

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• And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

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  Sex, Absolutely Nothing, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

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  Suffering, Limits, Observation

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.456, Macmillan

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• Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

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  Character, Conflict, Inner Conflict

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• Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

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  Life, Dream, Self

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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• We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

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  Stories, Goes On, Speak

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