Bobby > Bobby's Quotes

“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies. ”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne

“The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven

“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of Emperors

“She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“There are so many stories, she thinks, and most of them end up lost.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars

“Branching paths. The turning of days and seasons and years. Life offered you love sometimes, sorrow often. If you were very fortunate, true friendship. Sometimes war came.

You did what you could to shape your own peace, before you crossed over to the night and left the world behind, as all men did, to be forgotten or remembered, as time or love allowed.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven

“I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

“What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“It seemed to him that people must pass through each other’s lives all the time, touch them, be touched by them. Leave something behind, maybe, like a star that fell – you became a memory.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky