Guy Gavriel Kay

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

"A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once...We can never truly know the path we have not walked."

"Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind."

"In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone."

"There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk."

"It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth."

"“The Tyrants have cleaned out most of the highway brigands. Just a matter of protecting their own interests. They want to make sure no one else robs us before they do with their border tariffs and tax…"

"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 o…"