227 Quotes by Juliet Marillier

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.