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Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Story
Thirds
Parallels
Running
Relationships
Misunderstanding
Stories
Deeper
Exploration
Character
Various
Thread
Persons
Structure
Allows
Person
Characters
Complexes
Misunderstandings
Think
Hear
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Threads
Thinking
Create
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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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But I believe we all have an inner goodness a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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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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The most powerful weapon is hope.
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The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.
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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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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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I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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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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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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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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Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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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.
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