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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Right
Helper
Helpers
Choose
Path
May
Best

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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
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Nothing comes without a price.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.
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You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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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 there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid yet all remains the same.
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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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