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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
That's what it is to be a hero," Riordan says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
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
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
That's what it is to be a hero," Ríordán says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
Seven years of this and I'll have lost whatever edge I once had," I said. "I'll have turned into one of those well-fed countrywomen who pride themselves on making better preserves then their neighbors, and give all their chickens names.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
Saved my life," Grim said."You saved mine.""Good team, then.
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Juliet Marillier _ Tower of Thorns
Every ancient tale has truth at its heart," I said. "That's what I've always believed, anyway. But after years and years of retelling, the shape of those old stories changes. What may once have been simple and easily recognized becomes strange, wondrous and magical. Those are only the trappings of the story. The truth lies beneath those fantastic garments.
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