Quotes from Naamah's Blessing

Jacqueline Carey ·  610 pages

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“I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“As ever, his grief made my heart ache. "Ambition is a dangerous thing," I murmured. "One can harbor it unknowing, only to find it sparked into life when the opportunity presents itself.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing



“Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way,” I said slowly, thinking. “That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing


“Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Blessing



About the author

Jacqueline Carey
Born place: Highland Park, Illinois, The United States
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