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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Maybe
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Godlike
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Exhibits
Nobody
Strength

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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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But I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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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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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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Trust can be a hard lesson hope still more difficult.
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If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.
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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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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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