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My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Well
Wings
Oaks
Great
Sacred
Deer
Heart
Feet
Eagles
Mind
Clear
Forest
Water
Soft
Strong
Forests
Spirit
Forth
Tread
Wells
Spread
Eagle

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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
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Nothing comes without a price.
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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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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return home once more, to the wild forest and the land of mystic tales and ancient spirits whence he had taken her. That was the place of her heart, and if he loved her, he must let her go.
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With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.
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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.
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I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.
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Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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Good and bad shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.
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