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Trust can be a hard lesson hope still more difficult.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Hope
Difficult
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Hard
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Lessons
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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 I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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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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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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A wonder tale can be truer than true, I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.
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Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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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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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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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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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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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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Good and bad shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
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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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