218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

It’s the simple truth that mortal men cannot understand why the gods shape events as they do. Why some men and women are cut off in fullest flower, while others live to dwindle into shadows of themselves. Why virtue must sometimes be trampled and evil flourish amidst the beauty of a country garden. Why chance, sheer random chance, plays such an overwhelming role in the life lines and fate lines of men.

Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so.

You touched people’s lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.

We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we understand all there is to know about the world.

This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills.

We like to believe, or pretend, we know what we are doing in our lives. It can be a lie. Winds blow, waves carry us, rain drenches a man caught in the open at night, lightning shatters the sky and sometimes his heart, thunder crashes into him bringing the awareness he will die. We stand up, as best we can under that. We move forward as best we can, hoping for light, kindness, mercy, for ourselves and those we love.

Amazing, when you thought about it: how quickly-made decisions became the life you lived.

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world.