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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Human
Brilliant
Humans
Brave
Heart
Hearts
Falter
Kind
None
Scars
Mind
Minds
Scar
Make
Leave
Perfectly
Perfect
Errors
Soul
Souls

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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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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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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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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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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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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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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?
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Trust can be a hard lesson hope still more difficult.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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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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As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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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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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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