Top 160 Juliet Marillier Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The most powerful weapon is hope.”

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2. “Nothing comes without a price.”

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3. “Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.”

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4. “With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.”

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5. “Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we’re all perfectly human.”

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6. “My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth.”

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7. “Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you...”

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8. “This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”

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9. “Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.”

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10. “Some broken things you can’t mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.”

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

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

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13. “Practice your skills; sharpen your tools; do the best job you can.”

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14. “You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.”

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15. “But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

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16. “There is learning in everything.”

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17. “The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.”

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18. “In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.”

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19. “The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.”

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

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21. “We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”

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22. “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!”

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23. “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.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “Human memory is a strange thing,” he observed. “How it comes and goes. How sometimes folk tuck the past away so deep they forget it’s there at all. The human mind is full of byways, dead ends, locked chambers. Strongboxes guarding matters too painful to be brought into the light; dusty corners where items considered too trivial are tossed away. You’ll remember one day. And if you do not, perhaps it is no matter.”

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26. “The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you’d got wrong, the chances you’d missed, the errors you’d made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.”

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27. “A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world...”

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28. “It is frightening, how one lie is just the first strand in an ever increasing fabric of untruth. And once this fabric is woven, it is very hard to unravel.”

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29. “The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope.”

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30. “Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.”

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31. “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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32. “Hope fought hard to stay alive. Even when you thought it was beaten to nothing, burned to ashes, drowned deep, still it flickered away, waiting to be found again.”

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33. “As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn’t stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.”

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34. “Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there’s but a hair’s breath between them. It’s all one in the end.”

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35. “But then, if you forget what’s bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone’s got to.”

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36. “How could you live without human touch? Wasn’t that the first thing you knew, when you came into the world and they laid you on your mother’s belly? Her hand would come across and stroke your back, and cup your head, and she would smile through tears of exhaustion and wonderment. That touch of love would be the very first thing for you.”

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37. “Real 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.”

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38. “When the Fair Folk gave you an instruction, you followed it, whether it suited you or not. That was just the way it was.”

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39. “If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”

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40. “She went on because there was no going back.”

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41. “There were those whose love spilled over into their every gesture, and so was shared by all who knew them. But they were rare folk indeed.”

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42. “But in a song or a tale, anything is possible.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “Only a fool gives up his one treasure.”

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45. “It is a strange attitude, to view a woman merely as an object to be taken; to be so overwhelmed by the body’s cravings that a man must satisfy them even at such a cost.”

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46. “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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47. “A tale can start in many ways. Thus, it is many tales, and at the same time each of these is but one way of telling the same story.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Prophecies don’t simply come about of themselves, you know. They need a little helping along.”

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50. “Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.”

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