jacqueline carey Quotes

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

People believe what they are told.

- Jacqueline Carey

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

- Jacqueline Carey, Santa Olivia

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

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

Those that yield are not always weak

- Jacqueline Carey

That which yields is not always weak.

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

- Jacqueline Carey, Banewreaker

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.