Guy Gavriel Kay quotes

Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author best known for his works of historical fantasy. His novels blend rich historical settings with elements of myth and magic, often inspired by real-world cultures and events. He has achieved international acclaim for his unique storytelling and poetic prose. Here are 39 of his quotes:

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Guy Gavriel Kay

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

Guy Gavriel Kay

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Guy Gavriel Kay

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

Guy Gavriel Kay

most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

Guy Gavriel Kay

We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.

Guy Gavriel Kay

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Guy Gavriel Kay

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Ice is for death and endings.

Guy Gavriel Kay

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

Guy Gavriel Kay

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Even the birds above the lake Are singing of my love, And even the flowers along the shore Are growing for her sake. All the vines are ripening And the trees come into bud, For my love's footsteps passing by Are summoning the spring. Rian's stars in the night Shine more brightly over her, The god's moon and the goddess's Guard her with their light. Even the birds above the lake Are singing of my love, And even the flowers along the shore Are growing for her sake.

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But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

Guy Gavriel Kay

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Guy Gavriel Kay

When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Guy Gavriel Kay

My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject.

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