Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.