Juliet Marillier Quotes

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

Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.