Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline A. Carey is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
pain eternal
Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
pain awareness reminders
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
pain loss blessing
I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
pain heart flesh
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
hurt pain broken
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
absence experience genre human leave noticed sexuality
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
great kept looked novel soap sort taking utterly
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
lucy stepping wardrobe
I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.
access agent huge literary tremendous work
Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
consider fiction mainstream science work
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly in the mainstream for a while.
gauges
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
loss true-value values
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
shadow
What is fear but courage's shadow?
bears chains hardest
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.