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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
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Land
Happens
Heart
Think
Thinking
Guard
Defeated

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With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.
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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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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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If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
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As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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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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There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky and every one of them different.
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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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