A biography for Jacqueline Careyhasn’t been written yet.
“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”
“A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?”
“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”
“There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.”
“All knowledge is worth having.”
“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”
“I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.”
“Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing”
“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”
“Love as thou wilt”
“We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.”
“People believe what they are told.”
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”
“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”
“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
“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.”
“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”