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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
Something
Sorrow
Learned
Wisdom
Hope
Experience
Found
Rises
Wells
Deepest
Well
Despair

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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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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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She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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