Quotes from Juliet Marillier

One woman can't fix every wrong. One woman or one man can't help every soul in trouble. Doesn't matter how much you want to.

Even the most made up of stories has its roots in the truth. That one more so than many.

Nothing like hard work for driving away the shadows.

Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings.

It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.

If you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

The world's full of strange things. Stuff that doesn't make sense until you really think about it. Happenings like the ones in the old tales.

Folk are easy hurt, no doubt about that. Easy wounded. Easy broken.

Your kind have forgotten the old ways," says Eirne. "You have forgotten the importance of the tales, the wisdom of the past, the strength that rises from tree and stone and stream, the bond between one world and the other.

Allow someone to become too dear to you and you give your enemy a weapon more deadly than the sharpest sword, more lethal than the strongest poison.

To allow hope into the heart is to open oneself to bitter disappointment.

Not so easy. Give your heart to someone and you spend your life in fear of losing them. In terror of seeing them hurt.

Don't load yourself up too heavy. Even the strongest heart has a breaking point.

We're going to be busy.

Being friends, that's a big thing for some folk. One good friend can change your whole life.

Go armed with your formidable courage, your passion for truth and your strength of heart.

He'd lost his temper with Erisa once too often, and look what had happened. The stupid woman had tried to run from him, and when she fell she'd killed his son as well as herself.

The flame burns in his spirit and he is not afraid.

Na enxerga, Saraid dormia. Eile fazia o mesmo com os longos cabelos espalhados pela almofada como um rio de chamas escuras. Junto da fogueira, os homens de Pitnochie mantinham-se silenciosos, enrolados nos seus cobertores. Ninguém o ouvia; apenas as sombras.

I could not bear his expression. That look said, this is a long good-bye, 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.

The movement of the wheel is relentless. All changes; all moves on.

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

I will say one thing to you before we leave here. If you ever hurt Jena again, I'll strangle you with my bare hands. That's a solemn vow, Brother.

Unrest leads to weakness. Weakness is an invitation to neighbors to seize land, take cattle, perhaps start a war.