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01Undated

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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02Undated

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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03Undated

If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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04Undated

If a man truly loves, 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.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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05Undated

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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06Undated

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.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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07Undated

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

Juliet Marillier / quote

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08Undated

Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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09Undated

The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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10Undated

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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11Undated

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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12Undated

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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13Undated

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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14Undated

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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15Undated

We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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16Undated

Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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17Undated

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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18Undated

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.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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19Undated

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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20Undated

Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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21Undated

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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22Undated

Trust is a thing you know without words.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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23Undated

His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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24Undated

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

Juliet Marillier / quote

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