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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Everything
Shadows
Shadow
Takes
Wonder
Turns
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Moments

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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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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
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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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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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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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 would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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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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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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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 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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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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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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