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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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the-fool
robin-hobb
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Robin Hobb |
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7678a18
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Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
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dogs
grief
love
farseer
robin-hobb
pets
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Robin Hobb |
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147cda9
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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the-fool
robin-hobb
fitz
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Robin Hobb |
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132261a
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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
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mankind
nature
fear
wisdom
robin-hobb
fitz
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Robin Hobb |
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7f5eb3c
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"You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you." "No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably." I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed. "Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed and fed. You still look terrible. But you no longer smell. It's late afternoon now. Are there any other obvious facts you'd like to review?"
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humour
the-fool
robin-hobb
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Robin Hobb |
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3f7cba8
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That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.
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the-fool
robin-hobb
gender
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Robin Hobb |
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33d15a2
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"I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition."
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skill
fitzchivalry-farseer
robin-hobb
fitz
fool
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Robin Hobb |
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Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.
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dutiful
kettricken
rainwilds
fitzchivalry-farseer
robin-hobb
fitz
dragon
fool
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Robin Hobb |
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This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.' 'No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?
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thoughts
philosophy
robin-hobb
royal-assassin
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Robin Hobb |