“She went on because there was no going back.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“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.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“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.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“I am a child of Alban’s earth Her ancient bones brought me to birth Her crags and islands built me strong My heart beats to her deep wild song. I am the wife with bairn on knee I am the fisherman at sea I am the piper on the strand I am the warrior, sword in hand. White Lady shield me with your fire Lord of the North my heart inspire Hag of the Isles my secrets keep Master of Shadows guard my sleep. I am the mountain, I am the sky I am the song that will not die I am the heather, I am the sea My spirit is forever free.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
“At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Shadowfell
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“I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used not to unnerve me. Now when I step into the bathroom I recoil.
Pink bath, pink basin, pink toilet, pink bidet, pink tiles, pink wallpaper, pink rug. Brushes, soap, tooth brush, silk flowers, toilet paper: all pink. Even the little foot-operated waste-bin is pale pink. I know this little waste-bin well. Every time I sleep here I wonder what I am doing with my time and hers. She is sixteen years younger than I am. She is not the woman with whom I want to share my life. But, having begun, what we have continues. She wants it to, and I go along with it, through lust and loneliness, I suppose; and laziness, and lack of focus.”
― Vikram Seth, quote from An Equal Music
“He chuckles and says, "Finally. More than friends." I put on the most serious face I can muster and offer, "yeah, more than friends...Best friends forever!”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Friend-Zoned
“I was making a different sort of heart, one that was black, one that was protected by thorns, by bats, by raven's wings, by sorrow, by my aloneness, my armour”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Green Angel
“Who do you think keeps this country safe so you can sleep at night?”
“I don’t sleep most nights. And to be honest, Your Grace, I don’t feel all that safe.”
― Kady Cross, quote from The Girl in the Steel Corset
“Reading your sonnets?” asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. “How’d you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you’ve lost your eyes?” “Not yet,” rumbled the Ionian. Orphu’s great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. “Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Ilium
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