Juliet Marillier Quotes
With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.
The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
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.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.
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.
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 development of stories.
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.
I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.
Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.
Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.
a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.
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.
I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.
How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.
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.
The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
