My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.
Guy Gavriel KayThe military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
Guy Gavriel KayIt is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.
Guy Gavriel KayDave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.
Guy Gavriel Kay