When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me Jacqueline Carey More Quotes by Jacqueline Carey More Quotes From Jacqueline Carey For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. Jacqueline Carey events goes-on play Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. Jacqueline Carey cups fate fear It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love. Jacqueline Carey matter wise I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness. Jacqueline Carey wedding mirrors dark Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. Jacqueline Carey highest form love Garner knowledge, by any means possible Jacqueline Carey mean Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness Jacqueline Carey pleasure too-much awareness If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you. Jacqueline Carey asks dies loyalty This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike. Jacqueline Carey fighting dying secret Wars come and go; politics endure. Jacqueline Carey comes-and-goes endure war All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them. Jacqueline Carey path philosophy My lord. It is too much, and not enough Jacqueline Carey too-much enough lord Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland Jacqueline Carey battle honor may There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life. Jacqueline Carey karma patterns musician There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so. Jacqueline Carey distance fate believe It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. Jacqueline Carey wisdom struggle writing But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. Jacqueline Carey gross errors mistake Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. Jacqueline Carey cutting darkness lying Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. Jacqueline Carey eternal pain Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. Jacqueline Carey reminders pain awareness
