218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.  Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.  Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.