“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
Guy Gavriel Kay The Fionavar Tapestry
Quelle: The Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay ist ein kanadischer Fantasyautor.
Kay studierte Rechtswissenschaften und Philosophie. Er arbeitete von 1974 bis 1975 mit Christopher Tolkien, dem Sohn von J. R. R. Tolkien, an der Redigierung des Silmarillion. 1984 veröffentlichte er den ersten Band der Trilogie The Fionavar Tapestry.
Für The Wandering Fire und Tigana erhielt Kay 1987 und 1991 den kanadischen Science-Fiction- und Fantasypreis „Aurora“. 2008 gewann er für Ysabel den World Fantasy Award in der Kategorie „Bester Roman“ und 2011 den Sunburst Award für Under Heaven. Für seine Beiträge zur phantastischen Literatur wurde er 2014 Mitglied des Order of Canada. Wikipedia

“most hated by the dark, for their name is light.”
Guy Gavriel Kay The Fionavar Tapestry
Quelle: The Fionavar Tapestry
Guy Gavriel Kay buch The Lions of Al-Rassan
Quelle: The Lions of Al-Rassan
“All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch The Darkest Road
Quelle: The Darkest Road
Quelle: A Song for Arbonne
“I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Part 3 “Ember to Ember”, Chapter 10 (p. 317)
Quelle: Tigana (1990)
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 19 (p. 613)
“How we remember changes how we have lived.
Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Under Heaven
Quelle: Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay buch The Summer Tree
Quelle: The Summer Tree
Guy Gavriel Kay buch The Lions of Al-Rassan
Quelle: The Lions of Al-Rassan
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 561)
“We must be what we are, or we become our enemies.”
Quelle: A Song for Arbonne
“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch The Summer Tree
Quelle: The Summer Tree
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Lord of Emperors
Quelle: Lord of Emperors
“Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 77)
“It was true, it was all true. But none of it was the truth.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Part 5, “The Memory of a Flame”, Chapter 17 (p. 541)
Tigana (1990)
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 461)
“He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Part 4 “The Price of Blood”, Chapter 14 (p. 443)
Tigana (1990)
“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Part 1 “A Blade in the Soul”, Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Tigana (1990)
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Quelle: Tigana (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 79)
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
Part 2 “Dianora”, Chapter 7 (p. 184)
Tigana (1990)
Guy Gavriel Kay buch Tigana
He spat, discreetly, into the dust of the road. “Personally I preferred the brigands. There were ways of dealing with them.”
Part 2 “Dianora”, Chapter 7 (p. 184)
Tigana (1990)