Quotes by Juliet Marillier

About Juliet Marillier:

Juliet Marillier is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. She was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a B.A. in languages and a Bachelor of Music (honours). Marillier taught music at the high school and university levels and has also served as a choral conductor and opera singer. In 2009 Marillier was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

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Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.

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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.

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My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

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With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

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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.

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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.

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I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's always today, Pearl. Don't worry about tomorrow, because it's always today, and every today we have, I will mean it. I will not leave you. Not willingly. D...

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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...

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Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameJuliet Marillier
  • DescriptionNew Zealand fiction writer
  • BornJuly 27, 1948
  • CountryNew Zealand
  • ProfessionAuthor