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“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

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

“Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“We are not gods. We make mistakes. We do not live very long.

Sometimes someone grinds ink, mixes it with water, arranges paper, takes up a brush to record our time, our days, and we are given another life in those words.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars

“We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“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

“What we think we’ll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn’t always in our own control, our life.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“Amazing, when you thought about it: how quickly-made decisions became the life you lived.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

“We see only glimpses of history, even our own. It is not entirely ours--in memory, in writing it down, in hearing or in reading it. We can reclaim only part of the past. Sometimes it is enough....”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars

“Perhaps in the darkest times all we can do is refuse to be part of the darkness.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

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

“All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Darkest Road

“You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan

“I think that when we're young we often have the sense that what we do when faced with a choice will define our lives forever. This can be untrue, sometimes amusingly so, but not always.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“It does not end. A story finishes-or does for some, not for others-and there are other tales, intersecting, parallel, or sharing nothing but the time. There is always something more.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Last Light of the Sun

“Small things change a life. Change lives.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we understand all there is to know about the world.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

“The inner voice always had the hard questions.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan

“We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

“We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven

“An encounter on a springtime road. The random spinning of fortune’s wheel. It can sway us, change us, shape or end our days.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“She’d been afraid, preparing herself, after the summons came to the farmhouse—but fear was something you mastered, not a thing that defined you. Folco told all of them that, often. You didn’t deny you felt it, you ruled”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, A Brightness Long Ago

“In all the lands ruled by that City, with its domes and its bronze and golden doors, its palaces and gardens and statues, forums and theatres and colonnades, bathhouses and shops and guildhalls, taverns and whorehouses and sanctuaries and the great Hippodrome, its triple landward walls that had never yet been breached, and its deep, sheltered harbour and the guarded and guarding seas, there was a timeworn phrase that had the same meaning in every tongue and every dialect.

To say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune – or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something to vast for his capacity.

Valerius the Trakesian had become an Emperor.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars

“It happens this way sometimes, we can discover truths about ourselves in a moment, sometimes in the midst of drama, sometimes quietly. A sunset wind can be blowing off the sea, we might be alone in bed on a winter night, or grieving by a grave among leaves. We are drunk in a tavern, dealing with desperate pain, waiting to confront enemies on a battlefield. We are bearing a child, falling in love, reading by candlelight, watching the sun rise, a star set, we are dying . . . But there is something else to all of this, because of how the world is for us, how we are within it. Something can be true of our deepest nature and the running tide of days and years might let it reach the shore, be made real there—or not.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

“I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised.”
“Then I wish it for you.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan