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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
Strength
Maybe
Excepting
Godlike
Exhibit
Expects
Exhibits
Nobody

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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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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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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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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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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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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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