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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
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Dunedin
New Zealand
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She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
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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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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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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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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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There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.
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You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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But I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!
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