Guy Gavriel Kay quotes

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)
Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
most hated by the dark, for their name is light. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
We must be what we are, or we become our enemies. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair. (Guy Gavriel Kay)
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Ice is for death and endings. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Even the birds above the lake Are singing of my love, And even the flowers along the shore Are growing for her sake. All the vines are ripening And the trees come into bud, For my love's footsteps passing by Are summoning the spring. Rian's stars in the night Shine more brightly over her, The god's moon and the goddess's Guard her with their light. Even the birds above the lake Are singing of my love, And even the flowers along the shore Are growing for her sake. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing? View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. (Guy Gavriel Kay)
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay