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Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

born 1954 Canada

Guy Gavriel Kay (born November 7, 1954) is a Canadian writer of fantasy fiction.

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

Tigana (1990)

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

Tigana (1990)

When power is gone the memory of power lingers.

Tigana (1990)

I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.

Tigana (1990)

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

Tigana (1990)

“Sometimes the blind to do with the blind.”
“Yeah,” said Ned. “Straight over cliffs.”

Ysabel (2007)

We’ll fall off that bridge when we cross it.

Ysabel (2007)

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

Tigana (1990)

His choice here, no one else to blame. Sometimes, he thought, life was easier when you had people to stop you. Maybe that was something parents were good for.

Ysabel (2007)

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

Tigana (1990)

But knowledge, however you got it, changed things, Ned Marriner thought. You couldn’t go back to not knowing, even if you wanted to.

Ysabel (2007)

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

Tigana (1990)

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.

Tigana (1990)

Home was a dream she’d had yesterday. A place where children used to play. Among towers near the mountains, by a river, on curving sweeps of white or golden sand beside a palace at the edge of the sea.

Tigana (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guy Gavriel Kay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.