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e84f0cb	Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.		Robin Hobb
ab9a6bc	I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.	regret	Robin Hobb
1fff73b	Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.		Robin Hobb
34216c1	Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.		Robin Hobb
67f5da8	If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.	left-behind separation sorrow	Robin Hobb
684f41b	I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!	love revelation sorrow	Robin Hobb
25bc322	It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.		Robin Hobb
ad70662	The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.		Robin Hobb
cad704c	He is very concerned with his dignity, and I think that prevents him from having an interesting life. If I were a boy, and permitted to have an interesting life, I would have no dignity at all.		Robin Hobb
25925b4	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.	dragon dutiful fitz fitzchivalry-farseer fool kettricken rainwilds robin-hobb	Robin Hobb
6758fea	It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.		Robin Hobb
27dc680	To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years		Robin Hobb
b8a79be	Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings. Gather, shore-born creatures of the sea, to return to the shores yet again. Bring your dreams of sky and wings; come to share the memories of our lives. Our time is come, our time is come. - She Who Remembers		Robin Hobb
aa9c1b0	When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.		Robin Hobb
1160409	Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I		Robin Hobb
6fb1435	I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.		Robin Hobb
f1699fb	Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.		Robin Hobb
4086bc9	We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.		Robin Hobb
9947476	Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiencia raramente era agradavel para a pedrinha.		Robin Hobb
c45f18d	Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.		Robin Hobb
8ca7d37	And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.		Robin Hobb
6264918	If we aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.		Robin Hobb
a247791	She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.		Robin Hobb
c6e759a	All men value their own secrets far above those of others.		Robin Hobb
8d50428	Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.		Robin Hobb
a5778a5	A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.		Robin Hobb
ff598e7	Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.		Robin Hobb
fef7207	She sat back again, a gentle loosening that made her straight spine seem effortless and restful. Again she did nothing. She simply sat across from me and unfurled herself. I felt her life brush up against me and flow around me. It was but the faintest touching, and had I not experienced both the Skill and the Wit, I do not think I would have sensed it. Cautiously, as softly as if I assayed a bridge made of cobweb, I overlay my senses on her..	reminding	Robin Hobb
0e7b2c7	Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here."		Robin Hobb
a917f2a	As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.		Robin Hobb
fef3eef	One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.		Robin Hobb
48ddb77	The King's tool. I see.' An oppression settle over me. My brief glimpse of blue skies arching over yellow roads and me travelling down them astride Sooty suddenly vanished. I thought of the hounds in their kennels instead, or of the hawk, hooded and strapped, that rode on the King's wrist and was loosed only to do the King's will.	old-wit	Robin Hobb
aa7a7d6	Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.		Robin Hobb
c66c0f4	A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.		Robin Hobb
ecc72f8	Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you.		Robin Hobb
4c33efa	Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue."	answer arm blank captain cliff funny language mother name point query question response sarcasm sarcastic title tongue voice wit witty word	Robin Hobb
5058335	There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.	child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth	Robin Hobb
9606e3d	Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.		Robin Hobb
c838943	Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.		Robin Hobb
d5fce86	The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.	animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world	Robin Hobb
5d3552e	Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.	exist gap guilty honesty lack lie omission song speak starling truth	Robin Hobb
f3e4ae0	Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.	consider cool counsel discuss head heart hothead mind protest realize sense speak talk think	Robin Hobb
def05bc	Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.		Robin Hobb
639acb4	When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes--' 'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.	fulfilment wishes	Robin Hobb

Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.

Robin Hobb

ab9a6bc

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

regret

Robin Hobb

1fff73b

Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.

Robin Hobb

34216c1

Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.

Robin Hobb

67f5da8

If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

left-behind separation sorrow

Robin Hobb

684f41b

I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!

love revelation sorrow

Robin Hobb

25bc322

It is hard to write down a story that has no sequence or sense, let alone make a picture of what my dream showed me.

Robin Hobb

ad70662

The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.

Robin Hobb

cad704c

He is very concerned with his dignity, and I think that prevents him from having an interesting life. If I were a boy, and permitted to have an interesting life, I would have no dignity at all.

Robin Hobb

25925b4

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.

dragon dutiful fitz fitzchivalry-farseer fool kettricken rainwilds robin-hobb

Robin Hobb

6758fea

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.

Robin Hobb

27dc680

To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years

Robin Hobb

b8a79be

Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings. Gather, shore-born creatures of the sea, to return to the shores yet again. Bring your dreams of sky and wings; come to share the memories of our lives. Our time is come, our time is come. - She Who Remembers

Robin Hobb

aa9c1b0

When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.

Robin Hobb

1160409

Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

Robin Hobb

6fb1435

I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.

Robin Hobb

f1699fb

Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.

Robin Hobb

4086bc9

We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.

Robin Hobb

9947476

Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiencia raramente era agradavel para a pedrinha.

Robin Hobb

c45f18d

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

Robin Hobb

8ca7d37

And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.

Robin Hobb

6264918

If we aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.

Robin Hobb

a247791

She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Robin Hobb

c6e759a

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Robin Hobb

8d50428

Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.

Robin Hobb

a5778a5

A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.

Robin Hobb

ff598e7

Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.

Robin Hobb

fef7207

She sat back again, a gentle loosening that made her straight spine seem effortless and restful. Again she did nothing. She simply sat across from me and unfurled herself. I felt her life brush up against me and flow around me. It was but the faintest touching, and had I not experienced both the Skill and the Wit, I do not think I would have sensed it. Cautiously, as softly as if I assayed a bridge made of cobweb, I overlay my senses on her..

reminding

Robin Hobb

0e7b2c7

Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here."

Robin Hobb

a917f2a

As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.

Robin Hobb

fef3eef

One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

Robin Hobb

48ddb77

The King's tool. I see.' An oppression settle over me. My brief glimpse of blue skies arching over yellow roads and me travelling down them astride Sooty suddenly vanished. I thought of the hounds in their kennels instead, or of the hawk, hooded and strapped, that rode on the King's wrist and was loosed only to do the King's will.

old-wit

Robin Hobb

aa7a7d6

Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Robin Hobb

c66c0f4

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

Robin Hobb

ecc72f8

Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you.

Robin Hobb

4c33efa

Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue."

answer arm blank captain cliff funny language mother name point query question response sarcasm sarcastic title tongue voice wit witty word

Robin Hobb

5058335

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

child children danger demand equal kid little much require risk show teach young youth

Robin Hobb

9606e3d

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

Robin Hobb

c838943

Keeping a child from harm is not the same as rearing one.

Robin Hobb

d5fce86

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

animals beasts change creatures destroy growth human humankind men nature people prosperity take time wild world

Robin Hobb

5d3552e

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

exist gap guilty honesty lack lie omission song speak starling truth

Robin Hobb

f3e4ae0

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

consider cool counsel discuss head heart hothead mind protest realize sense speak talk think

Robin Hobb

def05bc

Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.

Robin Hobb

639acb4

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes--' 'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

fulfilment wishes

Robin Hobb