Why did becoming accustomed ...

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.
 Guy Gavriel Kay

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Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
 Guy Gavriel Kay
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.
 Guy Gavriel Kay
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
 Guy Gavriel Kay
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
 Guy Gavriel Kay
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.
 Guy Gavriel Kay