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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.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 7
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More quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.
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By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
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The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
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Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?
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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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I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
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We are the total of our longings.
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... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
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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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Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.
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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 deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
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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.
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There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
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It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
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One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
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most hated by the dark, for their name is light.
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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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