“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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“The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, quote from Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“Old Time heaved a moldy sigh from tomb and arch and vault; and gloomy shadows began to deepen in corners; and damps began to rise from green patches of stone; and jewels, cast upon the pavement of the nave from stained glass by the declining sun, began to perish. Within the grill-gate of the chancel, up the steps surmounted loomingly by the fast darkening organ, white robes could be dimly seen, and one feeble voice, rising and falling in a cracked monotonous mutter, could at intervals be faintly heard. In the free outer air, the river, the green pastures, and the brown arable lands, the teeming hills and dales, were reddened by the sunset: while the distant little windows in windmills and farm homesteads, shone, patches of bright beaten gold. In the Cathedral, all became gee, murky, and sepulchral, and the cracked monotonous mutter went on like a dying voice, until the organ and the choir burst forth, and drowned it in a sea of music. Then, the sea fell, and the dying voice made another feeble effort, and then the sea rose high, and beat its life out, and lashed the roof, and surged among the arches, and pierced the heights of the great tower; and then the sea was dry, and all was still.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
“He’s bossy and pushy and—” “Totally smitten,”
― Marie Force, quote from Maid for Love
“You see in his Le pont de l’Europe a young man, well dressed in his grey overcoat and black top hat, maybe the artist, walking over the bridge along the generous pavement. He is two steps ahead of a young woman in a dress of sedate frills carrying a parasol. The sun is out. There is the glare of newly dressed stone. A dog passes by. A workman leans over the bridge. It is like the start of the world: a litany of perfect movements and shadows. Everyone, including the dog, knows what they are doing. Gustave Caillebotte, Le pont de l’Europe, 1876 The streets of Paris have a calmness to them: clean stone façades, rhythmic detailing of balconies, newly planted lime trees appear in his painting Jeune homme à sa fenêtre, shown in the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. Here Caillebotte’s brother stands at the open window of their family apartment looking out onto the intersection of the rue de Monceau’s neighbouring streets. He stands with his hands in his pockets, well dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him. Everything is possible.”
― Edmund de Waal, quote from The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.”
― Laura Schroff, quote from An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
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