Kushiel's Quotes

#1. Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Jacqueline Carey

#2. For every victory there is a price.

Jacqueline Carey

#3. The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

Bill O'Reilly

#5. If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Jacqueline Carey

#7. Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri

#8. Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

Jacqueline Carey

#9. So I predicted the need to work my glutes.

Ashley Bartlett

#10. Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Jacqueline Carey

#11. We are alike, Joscelin and I, in that what we do, we do very well.

Jacqueline Carey

#12. And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Jacqueline Carey

#13. Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

Allan Dare Pearce

#14. I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

James Salter

#15. What is fear but courage's shadow?

Jacqueline Carey

#16. It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Jacqueline Carey

#17. And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

Joseph Caryl

#19. If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

Michael Ian Black

#20. Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.

Sadghuru