Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.
Guy Gavriel KayAfter a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
Guy Gavriel KayHow we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
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 KayWe worshipโฆthe powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We canโt even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]
Guy Gavriel Kay