Guy Gavriel Kay quotes - page 2

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:

Home was a dream she'd had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Devin had never trusted the priests of Eanna in his whole life. They were too shrewd, by far the most subtle of the clergy, by far the most apt to steer events to their own ends, which might lie out of sight, generations away. Servants of a goddess, he supposed, might find it easier to take the longer view of things. But everyone knew that all across the peninsula the clergy of the Triad had their own triple understanding with the Tyrants from abroad: their collective silence, their tacit complicity, bought in exchange for being allowed to preserve the rites that mattered more to them, it seemed, than freedom in the Palm.

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He didn't think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

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I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor-the story of my life, I fear.

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When power is gone the memory of power lingers.

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A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once...We can never truly know the path we have not walked.

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The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They want to make sure no one else robs us before they do with their border tariffs and taxes.” He spat, discreetly, into the dust of the road. "Personally I preferred the brigands. There were ways of dealing with them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They want to make sure no one else robs us before they do with their border tariffs and taxes.

Guy Gavriel Kay

All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.

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Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.

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Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.

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It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth.

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