How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.
Juliet MarillierI should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
Juliet MarillierReal life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.
Juliet MarillierThere is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.
Juliet MarillierWith courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.
Juliet Marillier