218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

What we think we’ll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn’t always in our own control, our life.

But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea may be, or how long ago it fell away. And.

Perhaps in the darkest times all we can do is refuse to be part of the darkness.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn’t that supposed to take time?” Guidanio doesn’t smile. “Wisdom does,” he says. “People can be clever at any age.

We are children of earth and sky.

People were ferociously poor. Farmers were abused everywhere, taxed mercilessly to keep the artisans and merchants in the cities happier with their lords – and so less dangerous.

It is a sharp, cold life though, my darling. For a woman, for a man, without a hearth at the end of day for warmth. Without love to carry you outward and home.

When you didn’t say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

She was a river or the sea, he could end here.