“Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they set were impossibly high, still, I could rejoice that such courage and compassion existed in the world. I could hope and aspire.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“What does it mean to be good?”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in my own veins, shaping my own secret vow and wielding it like a brand against the darkness, whispering it to myself, over and over.
I will try to be good.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“It is passing strange, what a fluid thing is one's own identity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew it in the soles of my feet, in the sturdy muscles of my calves. Surely the finding mattered more than the losing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
“My thanks, Master.” He waved his hand. “It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Scion
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“Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blood And Gold
“As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from A Series of Unfortunate Events Box: The Complete Wreck
“Klaus had known for all twelve of his years that his older sister found a hand on her shoulder comforting - as long as the hand was attached to an arm, of course.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Austere Academy
“Wrath: What the hell are you supposed to ask?
Rhage: I know! Who do you like the most? It's me right?Come on, you know it is. Come oooooonnnnn-
Butch: If its you,, I'll kill myself.
V: No, that just means she's blind.
Rhage: It has to be me.
V: She said she didn't like you at first.
Rhage: Ah, but I won her over, which is more than anyone else can say about you, hot stuff.
J.R.: I don't like anyone the best
Wrath: Right answer.
Rhage: She's just sparing all of you feelings. (grins, becoming impossibly handsome) She's so polite.
J.R.: Next question?
Rhage: Why do you like me the best?”
― J.R. Ward, quote from The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
“I will not be inconsequential, Colton. To you or to anyone else.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Driven
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