“The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
Juliet Marillier
Born place: in Dunedin, New Zealand
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“رأيت نفسي حكيماً عظيماً في القدس. استطعت أن أشفي من أمراض عديدة مختلفة لكنني قبل كل شيء استطعت أن أخرج الشياطين من الممسوسين. صار الناس يجلبون إلي المرضى من كافة أنحاء فلسطين. وذات يوم وصلت مريم، زوجة يوسف، من الناصرة ومعها ابنها يسوع البالغ من العمر اثني عشر عاماً. وقعت على قدمي وصرخت باكية "أيها الحكيم الشهير اشفق علي واشف ابني . في داخله العديد من الشياطين" طلبت من الأبوين أن يخرجا وظللت وحيداً مع يسوع. ربت على كتفه وسألته: "ما الأمر يا بني؟ أين تشكو الألم؟" فأجاب وهو يشير إلى قلبه :"هنا.هنا"
-وماذا أصابك؟
-لا أستطيع النوم أو الأكل أو العمل. إنني أجوب الشوارع وأنا أتصارع.
- ومع من تتصارع؟
- مع الله. مع من غيره تتوقع مني أن أتصارع؟
أبقيته قربي شهراً. كلمته بلطف دائم. وأعطيته أعشاباً تنومه. وضعته في حانوت نجار لكي يتعلم صنعة. وكنا نخرج نتمشى معاً فأكلمه عن الله وكأن الله صديق أو جار يأتي إلينا في المساء ويجلس معنا على عتبة بيتنا لنتحدث. لم يكن هناك شيء صعب أو مؤثر في أحاديثنا. كنا نتحدث عن الطقس وحقول القمح وكروم العنب والفتيات اللواتي يذهبن إلى النبع. وفي نهاية الشهر شفي يسوع تماماً. لم يعد يتصارع مع الله . صار رجلاً مثل غيره من البشر. ورحل غلى الجليل ثم علمت فيما بعد أنه صار نجاراً عظيماً. أفضل نجار في الناصرة.
ونظر الراهب إلي ثم سألني: "هل تفهم؟ يسوع قد شفي وبدلاً من أن ينقذ العالم صار أفضل نجار في الناصرة. فما معنى المرض والعافية إذن؟”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, quote from Report to Greco
“In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.”
― Karen Miller, quote from The Innocent Mage
“Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what’s done for Christ will last.”
― Elizabeth George, quote from A Woman After God's Own Heart
“I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.”
― Lloyd Jones, quote from Mister Pip
“God had heard her cry and He's reached down from heaven and given them a miracle.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Even Now
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