It is not every day that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownst to obey you

— Jacqueline Carey

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

— Jacqueline Carey

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

It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.

— Jacqueline Carey

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as There and Joscelyn, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would. I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

— Jacqueline Carey

Jeanne 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

Like a falling star, he descended on the March CRO, a Catiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

— Jacqueline Carey

Love as thou wilt

— Jacqueline Carey

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

— Jacqueline Carey

Oh, love and hate are two sides of the same blade

— Jacqueline Carey