Top 100 Juliet Marillier Quotes
#1. If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
Juliet Marillier
#2. I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these."
"Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.
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#15. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.
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#16. Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.
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#17. Seven years of this and I'll have lost whatever edge I once had," I said. "I'll have turned into one of those well-fed countrywomen who pride themselves on making better preserves then their neighbors, and give all their chickens names.
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#18. Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.
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#19. 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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#20. Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.
-Foalan to Bridei
Talking about Broichan
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#21. As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I was learning the nature of magic; it seemed to work according to a strict set of rules. And yet, somehow, it never worked in quite the way you expected.
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#27. Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours.
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#28. 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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#29. Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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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#32. The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
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#33. 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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#34. I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.
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#43. 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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#44. Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
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#45. Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind
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#46. The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope.
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#47. It came to me that it was possible to be afraid of your own fear, and that such a phenomenon was utterly ridiculous.
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#48. Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to do, for your sake; part of me recognized the kind of man I am, the kind of work I do, the utter impossibility of it. But the other part of me ... I felt your absence like a wound.
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#49. 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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#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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#52. 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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#53. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.
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#54. As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
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#55. I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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.
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#60. The person they'd locked up last summer was gone, and she wasn't coming back.
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#61. The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
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#62. 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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#63. There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.
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#64. 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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#65. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.
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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. I saw that in him she had found her sun and moon, her stars and her dreams.
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#70. You are ... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
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#71. You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.
'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
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#72. Ana wished very much that she could discuss this with Faolan
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#73. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. I learned that in the end, only I was responsible for my actions.
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#77. 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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#78. With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.
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#79. She said, a child born at midwinter comes into the world on the shortest day of the year. From that point on, the days stretch out. And so a child born at midwinter walks always toward the light, all his life.
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#80. Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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.
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#92. 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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#94. Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.
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#95. Faolan launched himself across the bridge, uttering a prayer to any deity that might be prepared to listen. Let me reach her in time, let her keep hold, let this wretched apology for a bridge not crumble under my feet ...
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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