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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.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Wisdom
Hope
Experience
Found
Rises
Wells
Deepest
Well
Despair
Something
Sorrow
Learned

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My daughter, I said blankly. I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?
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Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.
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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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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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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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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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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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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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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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You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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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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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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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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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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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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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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