218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

He waited for his cup to be filled, then added softly, “We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects that folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader’s response with words designed to tug at the heart.

The lesson of her days, Dianora thought, was simply this: that love was not enough. Whatever the songs of the troubadours might say. Whatever hope it might seem to offer, love was simply not enough to bridge the chasm in her world.

We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.

Praise be to the Weaver and all the gods!′ said Shalhassan of Cathal. ‘Finally she’s done something adult!

Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.

It seemed to him that people must pass through each other’s lives all the time, touch them, be touched by them. Leave something behind, maybe, like a star that fell – you became a memory.

Gardens were an island of order imposed upon the chaos of the world.