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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Guard
Defeated
None
Land
Happens
Heart
Think
Thinking

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Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.
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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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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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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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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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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
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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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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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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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