Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music."You sound like a marsh frog," she said, moving to stand before his chair.By the flickering light she saw him ...”

“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna hers...”

“Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my souls journeying.”

“[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.”

“If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slav...”

“You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?"-- Sandre to Catriana”

“We worshipthe powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that...”

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”

“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”

“What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?”

“That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.”

“He had a sensehoned by experiencethat what hed contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. ...”

“Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.{Guy Gavriel Kay}”

“Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul.”

“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, If I am found with amnesia, please give me the foll...”

“We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.”

“When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away”

“It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree”

“I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.”

“I didn't ask to be made a princess."This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough."Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times t...”