Kushiel's Chosen Quotes

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Love as thou wilt”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“My lord. It is too much, and not enough”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“One must gauge one's trust carefully.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Spontaneity is the province of youth”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in it's wake.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Would that I could make of heart and soul something other than a battleground!”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen