Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.