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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.

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Good
Sunlight
Shade
Breath
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Hair
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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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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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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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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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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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Nothing comes without a price.
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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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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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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.
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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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Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.
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