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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Heart
Lean
Dear
Walk
Walks
Path
Together
Come

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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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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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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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