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She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Night
Fade
Like
Destined
Fades
Fragile
Lovely
Seemed
Single
Fall
Bloom

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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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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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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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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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Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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