218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

Daylight was coming outside, but it was not only that: courage cast its own light.

We can never truly know the path we have not walked.

What I was born to may not be taken from me.′ She hesitates. ‘It may only be added to.

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

I think that when we’re young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.

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

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

And in the dark of that room, notorious for the woven patterns of desire it had seen, Ammar ibn Khairan held the woman beloved of the man he’d killed, and offered what small comfort he could. He granted her the courtesy and space of his silence, as she finally permitted herself to weep, mourning the depth of her loss, the appalling disappearance, in an instant, of love in a bitter world.

You should have killed me by the river.