218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?"-- Sandre to Catriana

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back. We live in the light that comes to us.

You should have killed me by the river

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

It is not easy, she thinks, to make your way in the world while insisting on a new path.

I didn't ask to be made a princess."This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough."Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?""Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.