Naamah's Blessing Quotes

“I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“As ever, his grief made my heart ache. "Ambition is a dangerous thing," I murmured. "One can harbor it unknowing, only to find it sparked into life when the opportunity presents itself.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Greet the sky and live, blossom!... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way,” I said slowly, thinking. “That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“One should not lie to poets, Moirin,” he said. “After all, that’s their job.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Not even the King is above the rule of law.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“But kin is not the same as family.” Raising my hand to his lips, he kissed it. “Rogier Courcel, Duc de Barthelme, is kin to me. You are family.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Without change, there can be no growth; and without growth, we stagnate and die.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Sometimes when the gods thirst, blood is the only sacrifice.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“You claim to see. Have you ever glimpsed a vision of the future that proved true?” I hadn’t. I hadn’t, because every dire vision I’d been afforded, I’d found a way to avert.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Life ended, but politics continued.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“There are wounds of the spirit as grave as wounds of the flesh, and they, too, need healing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“I’m envious.” She gave another shrug. “ ’Tis a poet’s curse to live in placid times.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“They will blame me. That is the risk poets take when we exaggerate for the sake of effect, which is what we do. And believe me, there are many who agree with the sentiment.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Never underestimate the power of a poet, even a disgraced one.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing

“Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Blessing