Guy Gavriel Kay: Quotes about life

Guy Gavriel Kay is Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Explore interesting quotes on life.

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“I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 14)

Life , Fear

“Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Lord of Emperors

Source: Lord of Emperors

Life

“Devin had never trusted the priests of Eanna in his whole life. They were too shrewd, by far the most subtle of the clergy, by far the most apt to steer events to their own ends, which might lie out of sight, generations away. Servants of a goddess, he supposed, might find it easier to take the longer view of things. But everyone knew that all across the peninsula the clergy of the Triad had their own triple understanding with the Tyrants from abroad: their collective silence, their tacit complicity, bought in exchange for being allowed to preserve the rites that mattered more to them, it seemed, than freedom in the Palm.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 461)

Life , Lie , Understanding , Freedom

“He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Part 4 “The Price of Blood”, Chapter 14 (p. 443)
Tigana (1990)

Life , Understanding , Thinking