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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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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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You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!
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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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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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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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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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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.
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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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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.
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