“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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“Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.”
― Melodie Ramone, quote from After Forever Ends
“I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Blue Castle
“There are far too many people born into the world, and far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It’s a horrible thought.” “You sound constipated,” said The Midget.”
― Josephine Tey, quote from The Daughter of Time
“There are some socks that shouldn't be washed by your mom.”
― Becky Albertalli, quote from Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. ”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Book of a Thousand Days
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