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I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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 on that 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.Juliet Marillier
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If a man truly loves, 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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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You are a devious woman, Blackthorn, ' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.Juliet Marillier
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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.Juliet Marillier
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You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.Juliet Marillier
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His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; 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.Juliet Marillier
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Ask us for any help you need... Let us be strong for you.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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Trust is a thing you know without words.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunrise And cuts like a fine blade.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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Dawn will come, ’ I told him quietly. ‘The night can be very dark; but I’ll stay by you until the sun rises. These shadows cannot touch you while I am here. Soon we’ll see the first hint of grey in the sky, the color of a pigeon’s coat, then the smallest touch of the sun’s finger, and one bird will be bold enough to wake first and sing of tall trees and open skies and freedom. Then all will brighten and color will wash across the earth and it will be a new day. I will stay with you, until then.Juliet Marillier
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I like your anger, ' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.Juliet Marillier
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What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.Juliet Marillier
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...if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant. Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.Juliet Marillier
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Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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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.Juliet Marillier
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With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.Juliet Marillier
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.Juliet Marillier
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Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.Juliet Marillier
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Look forward, not back, " the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.Juliet Marillier