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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.
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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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.
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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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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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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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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.
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