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Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3) QUOTES

1 " Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

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

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

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

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

4 " Cos'è il potere? Questi giovani sciocchi vi si arrendono con ogni impaurito battito del cuore. E così le ombre crescono, assumendo potere. Cos'è la paura, se non l'ombra del coraggio? "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

5 " Orgoglio, desiderio, compassione, intelligenza, belligeranza, fecondità, lealtà... e colpa. Ma al di sopra di tutto c'è l'amore. E se desideriamo essere più che umani, è quella la stella che dobbiamo seguire. Non possiamo fare altro che tentare. È sufficiente. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

6 " Glielo spiegai; non a parole, ma nel linguaggio della carne, di labbra, lingua e mani, del respiro accelerato e del pulsare del sangue nelle vene, nell'umore salato del desiderio. È la stessa domanda che poniamo alla nostra esistenza, e anche la risposta è sempre la stessa. Il mistero non è nella domanda e neppure nella risposta, ma nel continuare a domandarsi e a rispondersi, perché la fine è generata dall'inizio. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

7 " You should tell them,” Joscelin said shortly. “Tell them the truth. Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

8 " There are ties that bind more complex than blood. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

9 " ... where battle prevails, women must grieve. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

10 " Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

11 " I understood pain. It is the price of living, and of loving well, "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

12 " 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 , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

13 " What is fear but courage's shadow? "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

14 " 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. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

15 " 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. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

16 " 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 , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

17 " As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

18 " But to force growth is to kill it. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

19 " Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)

20 " C'è perspicacia nella follia. "

― Jacqueline Carey , Kushiel's Avatar (Phèdre's Trilogy, #3)