Quotes by Juliet Marillier

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

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.

If she were here I wouldnt be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close shed beg me to let her breathe. Id kiss her so hard shed plead for mercy. Id unfasten her clothing and lie with her on that hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

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.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

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.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

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.

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn, she said. I prefer the term strategic thinker.

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

Youve only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

His touch was like a bards on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

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.

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.

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.

Three children lay on the rocks at the waters edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

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.

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life.

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