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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?

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Great
Lets
Different
Carrie
Long
Burn
Something
Exciting
Life
Along
Blaze
Like
Happen
Tide
World
Happens
Tides
Whole
Carries

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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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This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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