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65f44b2
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Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things.
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Robin Hobb |
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8c6d339
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Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?
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Robin Hobb |
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9b420fc
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Malta," he said, and smiled. "Possibly the most annoying young female I've ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?"
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75a914c
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We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal.
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d802870
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I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually,
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835c1bf
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Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.
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He reaches forward slowly, to lift the pen from my lax grip. Wearily I regard the faltering trail of ink it has tracked down my page. I have seen that shape before, I think, but it was not ink then. A trickle of drying blood on the deck of a Red-Ship, and mine the hand that spilled it? Or was it a tendril of smoke rising black against a blue sky as I rode too late to warn a village of a Red-Ship raid? Or poison swirling and unfurling yellow..
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2a193c7
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Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.
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776a47e
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The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would have found it impossible. But I was young then, much younger than I suspected, and somehow I found the energy and time to do and be it all.
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77b7989
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It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world,
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f014e46
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There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.
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04feba1
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Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.' She frowned up at him. 'Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?' 'Perhaps people have a right to their pain,' he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, 'Perhaps they even need it.
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a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that I had an emotional attachment to my own flesh. My deep desire to keep it functioning well surpassed simple avoidance of pain. A man takes pride in his body. When it is damaged, it is more than a physical thing.
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69b6b02
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I have to let you go,' he said in a cracked whisper. 'While I can. Leave me that, Fitz. That broke the bond. That I did not take what was not mine.
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love
spoiler
the-fool
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f184354
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A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
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Robin Hobb |
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dd80612
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There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.
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defend
hold
maintain
safeguard
honor
power
dishonor
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You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf's ears.
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Robin Hobb |
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70f274c
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She is dead. Dead so many years. Who could imagine that death lasts so much longer than life?
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Robin Hobb |
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73a8723
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His heart had pounded with joy at the thought that he might catch her, might playfully hold her in his arms, for just a moment. They were children, I suddenly saw, children at play, only a handful of years older than I was now. They had never grown older, neither one of them, not really. All their lives she had remained that girl to him, that wondrous girl just a few years older than he was, but so worldly wise, so female to all that was so..
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That is true. I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.
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It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.' 'That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?' He raised his brows. 'Petition?' 'Isn't that what prayer is? Begging the gods to give you what you want?' He laughed, his voice deep as a booming wind, but kinder. 'I suppose that is how some men pray. Not I. Not anymore.' 'What do you mean?' 'Oh, I think that children pray so, to find a lo..
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So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
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4e02f6a
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Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?
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I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.
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Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.
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sadness
important
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fdadc11
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And tomorrow we'll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn't kill you after all.
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life
teachings
coping-mechanism
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53b0764
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It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.
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letting-go
love
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You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz"
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Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad." "Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?"
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You earn your future, Malta Vestrit." The bead-maker cocked her head at her. "What does tomorrow owe you?" "Tomorrow owes me?" Malta repeated in confusion. "Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely."
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How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.
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parenting
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All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living. Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their ploughing and planting, heedless of armies clashing but a few miles away.
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I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
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truth
stranger
return
cost
evaluate
look
result
think
home
regret
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It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.
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Robin Hobb |
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Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.
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Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.
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Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.
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Death stalks us, and he is ever sure of his kill. It is not a thing to dwell on, but it is something we all know, in our guts and bones. All save humans.
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Robin Hobb |
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3fd761c
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Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
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Robin Hobb |
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ab21f2c
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Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement
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inspirational-quotes
wisdom-quotes
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It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.
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Robin Hobb |
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4271471
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Cats do not enjoy being reminded of debts. Cats don not incur in debts.
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Robin Hobb |
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360bacc
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Wolves have no kings
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Robin Hobb |
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2e424ef
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It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.
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friendship
love
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