“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”

—  Juliet Marillier, book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

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New Zealand fiction writer 1948

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