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The most powerful weapon is hope.

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Weapon
Weapons
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Hope

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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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You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
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Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.
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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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Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!
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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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Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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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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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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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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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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She went on because there was no going back.
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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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Trust can be a hard lesson hope still more difficult.
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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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You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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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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Nothing comes without a price.
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