255 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in my own veins, shaping my own secret vow and wielding it like a brand against the darkness, whispering it to myself, over and over. I will try to be good.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.

I had Joscelin, my Perfect Companion, the compass by which I fixed my heart. No one could ask more.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised