255 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

Genius requires an audience.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.