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1 " We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176] "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
2 " My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned. "
― Guy Gavriel Kay
3 " If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends. "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , A Lâmina na Alma (Tigana, #1)
4 " He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67] "
5 " He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things. "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , Tigana
6 " Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying. "
7 " [We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home. "
8 " Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay} "
9 " There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. "
10 " By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred. "
11 " What mortal knew the way their fate line would run? "
12 " That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life. "
13 " Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul. "
14 " We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love. "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , Children of Earth and Sky
15 " When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away "
16 " It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , River of Stars (Under Heaven, #2)
17 " I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause. "
18 " The privacy of pride. "
19 " She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends. "
20 " A hand fought best when it made a fist. "
