If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
Jacqueline CareyIt is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
Jacqueline CareyThere are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.
Jacqueline Carey