Top 100 Juliet Marillier Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Ana wished very much that she could discuss this with Faolan
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#4. You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.
'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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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#8. About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.
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#9. The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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#11. 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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#12. 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.
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#13. I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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#14. As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. Love ... it complicates our games, old friend, it insinuates itself, disrupting the most carefully laid plans and unmanning the most disciplined heart.
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#19. 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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#20. Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.
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#23. I learned that in the end, only I was responsible for my actions.
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#24. I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.
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#25. cherish what you have, for in an instant it can be gone. And when it's gone, let the memory not be a weight that drags you down, but a bright light leading you forward.
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#26. A tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.
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#27. I felt Red's arm close around me like a shield against the rest of the world. His mouth was against my hair, and his heart thumped violently under my cheek. I shut my eyes, and held onto his shirt with both hands, and wept.
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#28. 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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#29. With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.
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#30. His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.
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#32. 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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#33. The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths open to your hero as branches on a great tree. They are wonderful and terrible, and plain and twisted. They touch and part and intermingle, and you can follow them whatever way you will.
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#35. As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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#36. Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.
-Foalan to Bridei
Talking about Broichan
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#37. It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.
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#38. Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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#39. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.
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#40. We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.
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#41. What did she give you?" He turned and smiled at me, the curve of his wide mouth transforming his face completely. "Faith in myself," he said simply. "To do what's right, and not falter, no matter how hard it gets.
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#43. It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.
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#44. The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?
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#45. Can a split quill write fair script?
Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire?
Can a cripple please a lady?
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#46. So you do believe in ... true love? she whispered.
I took a deep breath, I think I have to, I said, blinking back tears. Without it, we're all going nowhere.
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#47. Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.
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#48. Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.
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#49. All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet.
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#50. Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
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#51. 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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#52. Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind
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#53. Somewhere, beneath that darkness, I had seen both strength and honor. But his words of despair mocked my efforts at healing.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with surprising grace. There were hidden depths beneath that impassive exterior. A sweet kernel shielded by a tough shell; dancing fire concealed in stone.
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#58. 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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#59. You risked much, to give your love to such a one.
I stared at him. Love?
Did you not know, until now, when you must say goodbye?
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#60. This was a familiar feeling, for there were many places in the great forest where you could drink in its energy, become one with its ancient heart. When you were in trouble, you could find your way in these places.
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#61. 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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#62. I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.
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#63. When the Fair Folk gave you an instruction, you followed it, whether it suited you or not. That was just the way it was.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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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#66. Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.
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#70. I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. Can this be love that twists and tears the heart so? Does love give nothing but the power to hurt each other? Is this what makes the simplest touch blend longing and terror in equal measure? Whatever this is, it feels like a mortal wound.
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#75. 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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#76. 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.
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#77. 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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#78. The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me.
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#79. Ask us for any help you need ... Let us be strong for you.
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#80. strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious
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#81. 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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#82. Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath
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#83. What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.
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#84. What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me.
One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.
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#85. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.
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#86. 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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#87. ...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.
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#88. But there are two sides to every fight. It starts from something small, a chance remark, a gesture made lightly. It grows from there. Both sides can be unjust. Both can be cruel.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed.
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#92. As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
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#93. What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. A tale can start in many ways. Thus, it is many tales, and at the same time each of these is but one way of telling the same story.
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#97. But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.
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#98. 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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#99. A fine man", observed my sister, pouring mead for the two of us. "Well trained.
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#100. 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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