Quote

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

Jacqueline Carey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
Pay
Remember
Fathom
Scarce
Sins
Chosen
Seek
Sin

More quotes by Jacqueline Carey

Image
If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
Jacqueline Carey
Image
That which yields is not always weak.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
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
Image
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
Jacqueline Carey
Image
After you, it's all cheap tequila.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Spontaneity is the province of youth
Jacqueline Carey
Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
Jacqueline Carey
Image
What is fear but courage's shadow?
Jacqueline Carey
Image
There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
Jacqueline Carey