Juliet Marillier Quotes - Page 4

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

  Juliet Marillier

  Choices, Tests, Path

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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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  Sleep, Bird, Owl

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.133, Pan Australia

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• I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.

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  Men, Hands, Trust Me

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.271, Macmillan

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• I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.

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  Wish, Tears, Dry

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Son of the Shadows: A Sevenwaters Novel 2”, p.268, Pan Australia

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• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

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  Children, Thinking, Style

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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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  Book, Two, Advice

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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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  Running, Character, Thinking

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• How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.

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  Fighting, Letting You Go, Mines

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.244, Pan Australia

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

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  Doe, Trouble

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Wildwood Dancing”, p.116, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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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  Heart, Quality, Impossible

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

  Juliet Marillier

  Baby, Different, World

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• 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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  Sweet, Kissing, Hands

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

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  World, Ready, Not Ready

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

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  Lessons, Difficult, Stills

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

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  Girl, Writing, Men

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• His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

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  Crazy, Men, Ordinary

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.552, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Strong, Needs, Helping

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• Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

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  Godlike, Exhibits

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.564, Macmillan

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• After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.

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  Hurt, Real, Doors

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.29, Macmillan

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• How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.

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  Weed, Song, Garden

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

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  Shadow, Wonder, Moments

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Wolfskin”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

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  Found You, Choices, Waiting

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.137, Macmillan

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• You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

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  May, Path, Helpers

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

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  Dark, Forever, Risk

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.

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  Two, Forests, Return

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.166, Macmillan

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