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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Gesture
Glances
Betrayal
Gestures
Easily
Came
Word
Thought
Glance

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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.
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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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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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