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Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

“The effect of being violently driven from home, and that home being despoiled .... it can go on and on like sea-surf against rocks. On and on within a man or a woman, or within a child as it grows up somewhere else, never sat home, only away.”

Book:All the Seas of the World

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All the Seas of the World

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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay is a renowned Canadian fantasy author, born on November 7, 1954. His works are celebrated for their rich imagination and profound cultural depth, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys; But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone, Till I found the pleasure past and a winter come at last, Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast And boyhood’s pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done, Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun And winter fought her battle strife and won.”

Past Poetry Nature Loss Seasons Ageing

Book:Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

“She didn't know the songs," I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience.”

Relationships Loss Grief

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“don't always insure yourself against failure, otherwise you won't fully commit”

Loss Risk Dedication Grit Skin In The Game

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Les livres sont des fantômes. Les lettres ne valent guère mieux, qui se construisent à même l'absence de ceux qu'on aime. Même les plus belles, les plus tendres, les plus émouvantes ne cessent de chuchoter : je ne suis pas là.”