218 Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away

There was a familiar, hard bitterness in him now, and a curiosity he could not deny, and a third thing, like the quickening hammer of a pulse, beneath both of these.

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Is there sorcery involved when you love me here, or when we first meet in a public place?

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

The privacy of pride.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but only the most fleeting glimpse into her soul." Gidas was a poet, or wanted to be.