“How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red hair: snow and fire, like something from an old tale. The book I had noticed earlier was on the bench beside him, its covers shut. Around Anluan's feet and in the birdbath, small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny. He did not seem to notice them. As for me, I found it difficult to take my eyes from him. There was an odd beauty in his isolation and his sadness, like that of a forlorn prince ensorcelled by a wicked enchantress, or a traveller lost forever in a world far from home.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“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, quote from Heart's Blood
“With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“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, quote from Heart's Blood
“The most powerful weapon is hope.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“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, quote from Heart's Blood
“But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“We’re all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It’s the way of things.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“Only a fool gives up his one treasure.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
“Can a split quill write fair script?
Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire?
Can a cripple please a lady?”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Heart's Blood
Juliet Marillier
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“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream
“What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, quote from The Mists of Avalon
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
― Joseph Conrad, quote from Heart of Darkness
“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”
― Amy Tan, quote from The Joy Luck Club
“The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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