13 Inspiring Quotes from Tigana (by Guy Gavriel Kay)

If you’re looking for the best Tigana quotes you’ve come to the right place. We compiled a list of 13 quotes that best summarise the message of Guy Gavriel Kay in Tigana. Let these quotes inspire you!

Tigana Quotes

When I’m all grown up, come what may, I’ll build a boat to carry me away

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that – to also bring us home.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


A hand fought best when it made a fist.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?”– Sandre to Catriana

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana


The privacy of pride.

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana