“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.”

—  Juliet Marillier, book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

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New Zealand fiction writer 1948

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