Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Again and again, I pushed my memories away. There were days when it was easy and days when it was hard. My love ... was a boulder in my heart. I sought to let go of it and let it sink. Let it sink bel...

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in ? Maybe it wasn't really silence...

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Jacqueline A. Carey (born October 9, 1964) is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.

And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of t...

Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan.He is? I blinked. In the ?Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.

But Quintilius Rousse's sailors grinned in the saddle, saluting, and rode out in a thunder, horses trampling their own long shadows as they set their heads to the east.

For good or for ill, some people seem to love more fiercely, want more powerfully, burn more brightly.

Genius requires an audience. For all his cleverness, Delaunay was an artist and as vulnerable as any of his kind to the desire to vaunt his brilliance. And there were few, very few, people capable of...

Hard, his hands on my shoulders; my head rocked with the force of his fury as he shook me. Ah, Elua, it was sweet! The violence of it was spark to tinder for me.

Hey, sister buzz-kill, she said languorously to Jen. What crawled up your ass and died?I don't know, Jen retorted. What died and crawled up ass?There were times I regretted being an only child. This...

How could anyone endure what we had known and still be capable of so much goodness?

How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and the wealth of nations as love-tokens.

I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.

I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.

I eyed him. Are you really Jamaican?He returned my gaze evenly. Why do you think I'm not, sistah?I don't know, I said. I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching...

I have 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.

I settled back to sit on my heels, liking the mild discomfort of the hard marble. It had been a long time since I had been able to make obeisance to anyone with unadulterated pleasure; I led a strange...

I thought about what a priest of Elua had told me about love many years ago, the first time I kept his vigil on the Longest Night. You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding...

I will be your friend, then, for the ancient Hellenes said a good friend may stand between a man and his moira. Do you know what that means?''Fate.' I answered unthinking...

I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the p...

In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.