Annet Alejandro

“I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“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

“I wanted it, I wanted it all. All the ardent beginnings and the confused between-times and the bittersweet dregs.
All of the aches and sorrows, all of the soaring joys.
All of it.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Justice

“No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart