“ That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subve… Guy Gavriel Kay
“ It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ I didn't ask to be made a princess."This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough."Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that… Guy Gavriel Kay
“ [We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves… Guy Gavriel Kay
“ It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another Guy Gavriel Kay
“ Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause. Guy Gavriel Kay
“ It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree Guy Gavriel Kay