Juliet Marillier Quotes

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

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  Impossible, Conquer

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Hands, World, Wanted

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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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  Dark, Night, Light

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Son of the Shadows: A Sevenwaters Novel 2”, p.193, Pan Australia

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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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  Strong, Heart, Eagles

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.25, Macmillan

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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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  Sorrow, Despair, Found

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.479, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

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  Song, Flames, Wind

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Seer of Sevenwaters”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

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  Strong, Two, Knowing

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia

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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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  Goodbye, Hands, Long

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

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  Fire, Sky, Giving

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?

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  Life, Long, World

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.5, Macmillan

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• You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; 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. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.

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  Heart, Men, Wish

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.72, Macmillan

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• The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.

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  Men, Self, Different

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.364, Macmillan

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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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  Skeletons, Track, Remembrance

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Mother, Song, Heart

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• The most powerful weapon is hope.

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  Powerful, Weapons, Most Powerful

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Heart, Errors, Perfect

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• He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.

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  Moon, Sky, Sun

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.224, Macmillan

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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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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Cybele's Secret”, p.369, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.

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  Spring, Sleep, Heart

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.260, Pan Australia

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

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  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• Trust is a thing you know without words.

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  Knows

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Wildwood Dancing”, p.97, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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  Memories, Darkness, Alive

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Fall, Night, Lovely

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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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  Hair, Shade, Sunlight

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.254, Macmillan

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