Quotes from Juliet Marillier

Aquilo pertubava Bridei porque lhe parecia que só havia um mundo e que, se tinha defeitos, as pessoas não se deviam queixar deles, mas dar passos para o mudar

A loyal servant is a fine thing. We forget, sometimes, how much they do for us.

Team, aren't we? That means we trust each other, no matter what. Watch each other's back. Keep an eye out for trouble.

You must hold on to hope, or this cannot happen. Let hope go, and your battle is lost.

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

The flame of spirit we all had within us, the light that never truly went out, even in our times of deepest despair.

Practice your skills; sharpen your tools; do the best job you can.

When you felt sad or angry or hopeless, a story could help. A story could lead you into a different world for a while.

Everyone has responsibility for his own actions. But sometimes we can lose ourselves. Out of fear or sadness or guilt, we become less than we should be. It can be hard to find the courage to move on.

But in a song or a tale, anything is possible

I'll go on any path you want. Might give you a push sometimes, keep you walking straight. But whatever happens, I'll be right there beside you. Rain or shine. Shadows or light. Step for step. Always.

Step by small step; that was the only way I'd survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was.

It is surely better to have had such a love and lost it than never to have known the joy of it at all.

The dark things that never go away, the sunny, precious things that go all too soon.

A clever woman could solve puzzles. A fearless woman might ask difficult questions, seek answers in places others would shun. A woman who understood magic might see what an ordinary person was blind to.

It came to me that it was possible to be afraid of your own fear, and that such a phenomenon was utterly ridiculous.

You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.

I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.

had seen enough such deaths before to know that when the cloud of sorrow hangs too heavily over a person, nothing helps; no love, no hope, no

Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

To say that is to say we have no choice at all in what we do, how we live. I don't believe that, Uncle. Perhaps we do have a short span in this world [...]; perhaps our scope is somewhat limited. But within those limits we do have the power to change things, the power to make choices and to go where we must.

The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt, 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 . . . it is in the nature of your kin, to love this way.

Patterns could be broken; paths could be changed. All it took was courage.