Top 160 Jacqueline Carey Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.”

— Jacqueline Carey

102. “It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself.”

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103. “It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you.”

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104. “In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts.”

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105. “A little truth seasons a lie like salt.”

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106. “Betimes I have heard people bewail the fact that our destinies are shrouded in mystery; I think, though, that it is a blessing of sorts. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”

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107. “It is not wise to meddle with D’Angelines in matters of love.”

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108. “In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.”

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109. “If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one’s masters, this is the second: pleasing them.”

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110. “No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.”

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111. “He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than enough suffering in the world without adding to the balance.”

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112. “The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”

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113. “Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. “Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?” “A little.” Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. “You are so very serious, my shadow.”

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114. “She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so.”

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115. “It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.”

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116. “Questions are dangerous because they have answers.”

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117. “Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality.”

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118. “Her always is mine.”

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119. “In the desert we say Make haste slowly.”

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120. “There is no folly like the folly of the wise.”

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121. “Some chains are forged for us – those are the hardest to bear.”

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122. “Poetry glories in excess. When it’s not extolling the virtues of austerity.”

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123. “The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning.”

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124. “He is searching for an answer for which no question exists.”

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125. “I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar.”

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126. “Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?”

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127. “All this I knew, and yet it was a different thing, to learn it from Delaunay: not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. When I understood this, Delaunay said, I might begin to understand.”

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128. “To fail and persevere is a harder test than any you will meet on the practice-field.”

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129. “There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.”

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130. “And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of true by mortal ambition returned to set the record straight.”

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131. “Jahno asked with a stymied scholar’s anguish.”

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132. “Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.”

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133. “A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?”

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134. “You sang the seas calm, and you drove the Dalriada to war, whatever it took. They know that. That’s why they adore you. But everyone needs to laugh in the face of death. They’re following an anguissette into battle. Give them credit for seeing the absurdity of it. You’ve been dwelling on it long enough.”

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135. “It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.”

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136. “I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.”

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137. “Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.”

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138. “A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn’t flattened.”

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139. “We are alike, Joscelin and I, in that what we do, we do very well.”

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140. “Victory doesn’t matter to the dead, nor to the living who mourn them.”

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141. “For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”

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142. “But to force growth is to kill it.”

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143. “I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings.”

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144. “But it’s a lot easier to blame someone else than accept blame for your own failings.”

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145. “My taste is for spices, and not sweets.”

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146. “The enemy of fear is not courage,” Jahno translated for her. “The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard. Tonight I am afraid, but I take heart from the love I bear for each of you, and for our beloved brother Keeik, whose sacrifice we grieve and honor. For your sakes, I abide. For you, I endure. And when I bear this in mind, this baseless fear loses its power over me. Remember this.”

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147. “We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory.”

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148. “Tis a lonely business, being miserable when happiness abounds. I did my best to hide it, although the people who knew me well, knew.”

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149. “Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune’s blows.”

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150. “Pain and pleasure, yes, of course, but there are others, too. Cruelty, humiliation, dominance... and compassion and kindness. It took all of these, to make truly exquisite music. That was the part so few understood. Affection.”

— Jacqueline Carey