“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music.
"You sound like a marsh frog," she said, moving to stand before his chair.
By the flickering light she saw him smile.
"Where have you been," she asked. "My dear. I've needed you so much."
"Eyyia," he tried again, and stood up. His eyes were black hollows. They would always be hollows.
He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“I know love,"
Says the littlest one.
"Love is like a flower."
"Why is love a flower?
Little one tell me."
"Love is a flower
For the sweetness it gives
Before it dies away.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“And surely, surely, if we are not simply animals that live to fight, there must be a reason for bloodshed.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“It's one thing to make war for your country, your family, even in pursuit of glory. It's another to believe that the people you fight are embodiments of evil and must be destroyed for that. I want this peninsula back. I want Esperana great again, but I will not pretend that if we smash Al- Rassan and all it has built we are doing the will of any god I know.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“And in the dark of that room, notorious for the woven patterns of desire it had seen, Ammar ibn Khairan held the woman beloved of the man he’d killed, and offered what small comfort he could. He granted her the courtesy and space of his silence, as she finally permitted herself to weep, mourning the depth of her loss, the appalling disappearance, in an instant, of love in a bitter world.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“Whichever way the wind blows, it
will rain upon the Kindath.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“It is an old truth that men and women sometimes miss what they hate as much as what they love.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“A coragem residia em lutar para tentar ultrapassar esse medo, em erguer-se para fazer o que tinha de ser feito.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
“You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Lions of Al-Rassan
Guy Gavriel Kay
Born place: in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada
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“He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Five Little Pigs
“¿Cuándo cambié a tus ojos?
Adam me miró con otro «tú estás loca».
—No pienso contártelo.
—¿Por qué no?
—Porque es una de esas cosas de tíos que no entenderías y que probablemente te cabreará.
Genial. Ahora estaba definitivamente intrigada.
—No me enfadaré. Solo dímelo por favor —le supliqué con dulzura.
—Vale. —Me miró con cautela—. Fue la mañana siguiente a tu decimoctavo cumpleaños.
Mis ojos se agrandaron al recordarlo. «¿En serio?»
—Sí, la mañana en la que tú… oh, casualmente, me dijiste que habías perdido la virginidad.
¿Fue ese el momento en que se dio cuenta de que sentía algo por mí? Dios… Joss tenía razón, los hombres era trogloditas.
(...) Adam había estado celoso. No fue lo que me pareció en aquel momento.
—Supe que estabas enojado conmigo, pero creí que era otro de esos episodios de «hermano mayor sobreprotector».
—¡No! —Adam movió la cabeza sombríamente, se echó hacia atrás y se apoyó en las palmas de las manos—. Fue uno de esos episodios «estoy buscando a la hermana pequeña de mi mejor amigo, que me acaba de decir que se ha acostado con un tío por primera vez y lo único que veo son sus labios hinchados y su pelo revuelto recién salido de la cama y me he puesto jodidamente cachondo». —Sus ojos se detuvieron en mi boca conforme recordaba—. Mi cuerpo reaccionó a lo que habías dicho antes de que pudiera hacerlo mi cabeza. De repente me encontré preguntándome cómo sería ser acariciado por tus labios, a qué sabrías, cómo me sentiría al tener tus largas piernas alrededor de mi espalda mientras empujaba dentro de ti... —Me sacudí, notando cómo se me calentaba la piel ante el conocimiento de que Adam había estado teniendo pensamientos lascivos sobre mí durante mucho tiempo sin que yo tuviera ni idea—. Así que me cabreé. Conmigo por desearte así. Y también contigo… por dejarle probarte…
Nuestras miradas se encontraron y mi respiración se tornó pesada.
Supe que si no decía nada terminaríamos haciendo el amor en la segunda habitación antes de que pudiéramos acabar nuestro paseo por el sendero de la memoria.”
― Samantha Young, quote from Until Fountain Bridge
“You have no idea at all yet what you can bear!”
― Jo Baker, quote from Longbourn
“Home to a girl’s most secret fantasy. I just hoped said fantasy had managed to find a t-shirt.”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Eversea
“[Iain, addressing the Rangers at the end of the French & Indian war]
"Never has the world see a war as this one, but you turned the tide of it, spillin' your blood to keep frontier families safe. Years from now, people will remember the Rangers, the sacrifices you made, the battles you fought, the victories you won. I pray that peace will follow you all your days.”
― Pamela Clare, quote from Defiant
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One Good Knight
The Algebraist
Master of the Senate
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