Quotes from Kushiel's Dart

“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“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.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“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, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Garner knowledge, by any means possible”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Wars come and go; politics endure.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“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, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“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.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“For every victory there is a price.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

“Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart

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