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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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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
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Dunedin
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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
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But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid yet all remains the same.
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The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
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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 don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
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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.
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Trust is a thing you know without words.
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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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Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.
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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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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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Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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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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