Jacqueline Carey Beauty Quotes

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. ~ Jacqueline Carey

I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in my own veins, shaping my own secret vow and wielding it like a brand against the darkness, whispering it to myself, over and over.
I will try to be good. ~ Jacqueline Carey

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting ~ Jacqueline Carey

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. ~ Jacqueline Carey

So you were good enough for the Cullach Gorrym, good enough to marry Dorelei mab Breidaia, good enough to beget Alba a successor, but not good enough for the Queen's daughter?" Urist's lips curled with scorn. The tip of his knife flicked upward. "Well, that's what I think of that, lad." The red yarn parted and fell. ~ Jacqueline Carey

There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin. ~ Jacqueline Carey

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

I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. ~ Jacqueline Carey

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world. ~ Jacqueline Carey

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads. ~ Jacqueline Carey

couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; two realms, two rulers, united in love and a shared dream. It ~ Jacqueline Carey

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

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. ~ Jacqueline Carey

The night court taught me to serve, and Delauney taught me to think; but from Melisande Shahrizai, I learned how to hate. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force. ~ Jacqueline Carey

No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Mercy and compassion are all the grace left to us. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade ~ Jacqueline Carey

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves. ~ Jacqueline Carey

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers ~ Jacqueline Carey

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.'
Father Ramon coughed.
'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully. ~ Jacqueline Carey

All I could do was stare blankly at him.
"Look." He raised both hands, palms outward. "Daisy, I'm sorry. I had no idea."
"You had no idea you had a twin sister?"
"No idea she was coming." He sounded tired.
My tail began lashing back and forth in agitation. "Oh, and where exactly did Emmy pop in from, Sinny dear? Did she drive up from Kalamazoo? Because I don't recall you mentioning a sister. And it sounded a lot like jolly old England, which I don't recall you mentioning, either. Is that something else you put behind you? Or maybe putting on accents is a thing with the Palmer clan. Pip pip, cheerio- ~ Jacqueline Carey

It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself. ~ Jacqueline Carey

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you. ~ Jacqueline Carey

super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings - or semi-human beings - depends on our feelings. Without ~ Jacqueline Carey

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness ~ Jacqueline Carey

It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care. ~ Jacqueline Carey

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures. ~ Jacqueline Carey

If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them. ~ Jacqueline Carey

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. ~ Jacqueline Carey

People believe what they are told. ~ Jacqueline Carey

The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them. ~ Jacqueline Carey