“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined… — Juliet Marillier Dreams Copy Share Image
I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I… — Juliet Marillier Foreshadowing Copy Share Image
“I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and… — Juliet Marillier Decision Copy Share Image
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to… — Juliet Marillier Freedom Copy Share Image
How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well… — Juliet Marillier Being a father Copy Share Image
“Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with… — Juliet Marillier Children Copy Share Image
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great… — Juliet Marillier Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings. I want to be with you more than anything in the… — Juliet Marillier Failure Copy Share Image
“Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to… — Juliet Marillier Right thing Copy Share Image
He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon… — Juliet Marillier Death Copy Share Image
Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep,… — Juliet Marillier Earth Copy Share Image
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest… — Juliet Marillier Bird Copy Share Image
“I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.” — Juliet Marillier Anger Copy Share Image
I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more… — Juliet Marillier Body Copy Share Image
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet… — Juliet Marillier Betrayal Copy Share Image
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female… — Juliet Marillier Books Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt… — Juliet Marillier Heartache Copy Share Image
“But some things did not change... Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they… — Juliet Marillier Courage Copy Share Image
This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold… — Juliet Marillier Aptitude Copy Share Image
With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“But then, if you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. — Juliet Marillier Despair Copy Share Image
“The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone’s. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays… — Juliet Marillier Girl Copy Share Image
“He’d lost his temper with Erisa once too often, and look what had happened. The stupid woman had tried to run from… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Faolan launched himself across the bridge, uttering a prayer to any deity that might be prepared to listen. "Let me reach her… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Bran held his voice level. "In time, you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless.… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he… — Juliet Marillier Baby Copy Share Image
All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his.… — Juliet Marillier Every moment Copy Share Image
This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner… — Juliet Marillier Blushing Copy Share Image
