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a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Ever
Never
Like
Wiser
Deeper
Bigger
Tree
Girl

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His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
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Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.
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Trust can be a hard lesson hope still more difficult.
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And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.
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There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky and every one of them different.
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My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
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After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.
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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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Nothing comes without a price.
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Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.
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You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.
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If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.
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You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
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For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.
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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?
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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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