JMJuliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunriseAnd cuts like a fine blade.

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02Undated

I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.

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03Undated

Dawn will come,’ I told him quietly. ‘The night can be very dark; but I’ll stay by you until the sun rises. These shadows cannot touch you while I am here. Soon we’ll see the first hint of grey in the sky, the color of a pigeon’s coat, then the smallest touch of the sun’s finger, and one bird will be bold enough to wake first and sing of tall trees and open skies and freedom. Then all will brighten and color will wash across the earth and it will be a new day. I will stay with you, until then.

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04Undated

I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.

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05Undated

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

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06Undated

...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

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07Undated

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

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08Undated

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.

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09Undated

You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.

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10Undated

The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant. Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness.

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11Undated

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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12Undated

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

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13Undated

Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.

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14Undated

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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15Undated

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

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16Undated

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

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17Undated

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

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18Undated

Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. 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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19Undated

Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.

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