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You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Point
Comes
Keep
Wolf
Truth
Surprise
Need
Telling
Needs
Door
Like
Doors
Risk

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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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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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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 may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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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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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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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid yet all remains the same.
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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.
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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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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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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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As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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