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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Sunlight
Shade
Breath
Breaths
Hair
Ends
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The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
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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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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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But I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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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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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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Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.
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You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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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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In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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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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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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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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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.
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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.
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