Jacqueline Carey Quotes

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

~ Jacqueline Carey

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

~ Jacqueline Carey

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

~ Jacqueline Carey

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

~ Jacqueline Carey

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.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

~ Jacqueline Carey

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

~ Jacqueline Carey

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.

~ Jacqueline Carey

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

~ Jacqueline Carey

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

~ Jacqueline Carey

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

~ Jacqueline Carey

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

~ Jacqueline Carey

That which yields is not always weak.

~ Jacqueline Carey

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

~ Jacqueline Carey