Juliet Marillier Quotes

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• I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
• Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
• 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,…
• There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze…
• In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
• The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
• What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.
• As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
• Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something…
• First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.
• 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 would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me…
• Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath
• Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
• 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…
• I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

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