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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
Juliet Marillier
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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
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Dunedin
New Zealand
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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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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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You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.
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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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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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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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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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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
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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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Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.
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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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My daughter, I said blankly. I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?
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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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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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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You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.
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