218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

Heimthra’ was the word used for longing: for home, for the past, for things to be as they once had been. Even the gods were said to know that yearning, from when the worlds were broken.

He sometimes imagined them all, men and women, children, everyone in the world, sailing down the Sky River in the hugeness of the dark, surrounded by all the stars. Some tried to steer the ship. He had tried. But only the gods could do that, in the end.

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.

Another journey lay ahead, home at the end of it.

Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.

But courage was not lacking in her heart, though it might be foolhardy and unwise.

You do not honour them by living as if you, too, have died.

Alluding and attacking, summoning a courage, embodying a gallantry of defiance that hurt to see, it was so noble and so doomed.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree.