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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Family
Ancient
Sacrificed
Spirit
Save
Mystic
Else
Childhood
Spirits
Place
Brother
Forest
Home
Return
Brothers
Must
Loved
Forests
Heart
Land
Tales
Yearned
Taken
Wild
Whence

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There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.
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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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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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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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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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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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But I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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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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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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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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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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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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