Guy Gavriel Kay Short Quotes

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

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One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

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She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

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

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What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

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Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

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Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

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

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When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away

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Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

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

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We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

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

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

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

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

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The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

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The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

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

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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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She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

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