255 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.