Juliet Marillier Quotes - Page 3

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• I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

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  Circles, Water, Tiny

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.418, Macmillan

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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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  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

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  Religious, Deeds, Sake

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Heart, Glowing, Lamps

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

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  Strong, Rain, Storm

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• Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

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  Nightmare, Embrace, My Friends

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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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  Betrayal, Gestures, Glances

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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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  Quiet People, Voice, Gone

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.259, Pan Australia

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• This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

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  Real, Understanding, Triumph

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.247, Pan Macmillan

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• As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

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  Suffering, Found Love, Found

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• The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

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  Powerful, Dark, Embrace

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• 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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  Suicide, Father, Views

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• I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

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  Sorry, Two, Wish

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Child of the Prophecy: A Sevenwaters Novel 3”, p.249, Pan Australia

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• Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

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  War, Believe, Play

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Nothing comes without a price.

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  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Wildwood Dancing”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer." --Bran to Eamonn

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  Regret, Believe, Voice

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• Liadan," he said, staring intently at the ground. "Yes," I whispered. "Don't wed that man Eamonn. Tell him, if he takes you, he's a dead." --Bran

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  Men, Said, Staring

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• You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

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  Doors, Risk, Needs

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• A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

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  Real, Army, Fire

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• 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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  World, Steps, Wonder

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles”, p.397, Macmillan

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• 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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  Should Have, Storm, Firsts

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• 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 onthat 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.

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  Stars, Lying, Kissing

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.343, Pan Macmillan

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• This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. “I suppose so,” I said, blushing again. “And, as you see, I’m doing it properly, on my knees.” “This would, however, be a partnership of equals you’re offering, I imagine?” “Undoubtedly.” (448-49)

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  Offering, Mouths, Knees

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.562, Macmillan

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• My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?

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  Daughter, Children, Father

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.544, Macmillan

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• As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

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  Novelists, Behavior, Interaction

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