Quote

What is fear but courage's shadow?

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
Shadow
Courage
Fear

More quotes by Jacqueline Carey

Image
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
A nervous silence loosens tongues
Jacqueline Carey
Image
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Those that yield are not always weak
Jacqueline Carey
Image
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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
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
Image
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised
Jacqueline Carey
Image
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
Jacqueline Carey
Image
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
Jacqueline Carey
Image
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
Jacqueline Carey
Image
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
Jacqueline Carey