Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
punishment bears fit
And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.
hands fool given
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.
hands cold poignant
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
pain awareness reminders
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
genius audience
Genius requires an audience.
world comfort trouble
It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.
distance believe fate
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.
true-friend thinking romance
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
youth spontaneity provinces
Spontaneity is the province of youth
loyalty dies asks
If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
gauges
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
loss true-value values
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
goes-on stories speak
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
mistake errors gross
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.