218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

The world didn’t allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

Legends, if you crossed their path, could get you killed.

These two, the memories of last autumn, could be addressed later – if she chose. Right now, she had a task, and she could very much use whatever payment they ended up offering.

But if you couldn’t do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

Here the world is all the world may be.

If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I’ll beat you up. I swear I will.

I think,′ said Ammar ibn Khairan of Aljais, very slowly, ‘that I should know you in a pitch black room. I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world.’ He paused. ‘Is that answer enough, Jehane? Or too much of one? Will you say?

Sometimes you didn’t really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

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