“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
Source: The Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay, né le 7 novembre 1954 à Weyburn, est un écrivain canadien, spécialisé dans la fantasy historique.
Il a participé à la rédaction du Silmarillion de l'écrivain britannique J. R. R. Tolkien , avant de publier des romans sous son propre nom.
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“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
Source: The Fionavar Tapestry
“All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.”
Source: The Darkest Road
Source: A Song for Arbonne
“I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.”
Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
Part 3 “Ember to Ember”, Chapter 10 (p. 317)
Source: Tigana (1990)
“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”
Source: Under Heaven
“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”
Source: Tigana
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
Source: The Summer Tree
“Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.”
Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 77)
“It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth.”
Part 5, “The Memory of a Flame”, Chapter 17 (p. 541)
Tigana (1990)
“He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.”
Part 4 “The Price of Blood”, Chapter 14 (p. 443)
Tigana (1990)
“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”
Part 1 “A Blade in the Soul”, Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Tigana (1990)
He spat, discreetly, into the dust of the road. “Personally I preferred the brigands. There were ways of dealing with them.”
Part 2 “Dianora”, Chapter 7 (p. 184)
Tigana (1990)