227 Quotes by Juliet Marillier

You are a child no longer, whatever you might wish. You are a woman with a woman’s body, and you do not think or feel as you did back there at Sevenwaters, when you ran wild in the forest and the trees spread their canopy to shelter you. Men will look at you. Come to terms with it, Sorcha. You cannot hide forever. They will look at you with desire in their eyes. You were taken against your will, and it damaged you. But life goes on.

But in a song or a tale, anything is possible.

The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don’t know how.

Part of me has turned wild, and another part’s turned dark as endless night, and I’m not going to change back just because someone says I must.

Only a fool gives up his one treasure.

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it’s a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.

You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are – you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.

Look forward, not back,” the Hag said. “All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.