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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Every
Islands
Truths
Sky
Stars
Rather
Truth
Many
Different
Island

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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.
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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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A wonder tale can be truer than true, I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.
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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
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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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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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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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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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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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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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