Kushiel's Dart Quotes

• When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pity, Cruelty, Casts

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hands, Cold, Poignant

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• That which yields is not always weak.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Yield, Weak, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.467, Macmillan

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• It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Tristeza, pena, dolor

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.290, Macmillan

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• There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

  Jacqueline Carey

  Lust, Desire, Made

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.91, Macmillan

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• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pain, Heart, Flesh

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.127, Macmillan

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• It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

  Jacqueline Carey

  Suffering, Limits, Observation

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.456, Macmillan

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• It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Thinking, Civilization, Lines

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.390, Macmillan

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• Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Fear, Fate, Cups

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Warrior, Love Is, Blood

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.577, Macmillan

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• If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Loyalty, Dies, Asks

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.648, Macmillan

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• And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Sex, Absolutely Nothing, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• Tener un traidor como aliado es tener un enemigo a la espera.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Esperando, Enemigo, Aliados

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). "El dardo de Kushiel", p.369, Macmillan

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• Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

  Jacqueline Carey

  Too Much, Awareness, Pleasure

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.31, Macmillan

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• There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Awkward, Sorrow, Faces

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.769, Macmillan

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• Verdaderamente, es en la pérdida donde aprendemos el verdadero valor de una cosa.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Loss, True Value, Kushiel's Dart

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• Azótanos hasta que caigamos al suelo, nos daremos la vuelta y pediremos más, ¡somos los Phèdre's Boys! Nos gusta doler, nos gusta sangrar, ¡necesitamos azotes a diario, somos los Phèdre's Boys! Hombre o mujer, no nos importa, ¡danos gemelos y nos llevaremos el par! ¡Somos los Chicos de Phèdre! ...Pero que os dejemos vencernos no significa que podáis vencernos, ¡somos los Phèdre's Boys!

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Mean, Boys

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• Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Bears, Chains, Hardest

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2255, Macmillan

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• For every victory there is a price.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Victory, Kushiel's Dart

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