“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she’d been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn felt suddenly very solemn and serious. Usually during lessons and lectures she felt only a fierce desire to be elsewhere or an irresistible urge to fidget, but now she sat as still as a statue, sensing that what Marna was about to tell her was more important, and certainly more interesting, than herb lore or weaving patterns.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
Kate Constable
Born place: in Sandringham, Melborne (Victoria), Australia
Born date January 1, 1966
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“Love was death’s only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from The Painted Veil
“The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.”
― Helen Fielding, quote from Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from The Age of Reason
“We're not out of the woods yet.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Vile Village
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