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I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool"
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I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.
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life
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Robin Hobb |
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It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.
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Robin Hobb |
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Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be.
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you'd be wise to eat lightly, or not at all, of any food you do not prepare yourself." "At all the feasts and festivities that will be there?" "No. Only at the ones you wish to survive."
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Robin Hobb |
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Patience had once counseled me that the best way to stop pitying myself was to do something for someone else.
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Robin Hobb |
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.
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My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives.
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Robin Hobb |
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That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.
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Robin Hobb |
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Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I
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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 plowing and planting, heedless of armies clashing but a few miles away.
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So. Which of our troubles torments you most this evening?" Althea surrendered. "They all nip at my heels like a pack of yapping feists, ship. I don't know which to worry about first." The figurehead gave a snort of disdain. "Then kick them away as if they were truly a pack of curs and fix your gaze instead on your destiny." ... "Don't think about the obstacles" ... The ship spoke in a low, soft voice. "Long or short, if you worry about eve..
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She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283"
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Any human who dared to attack a dragon deserved to die himself. And dead, of what use was he, unless someone ate him? She didn't see why leaving a human to be eaten by worms was more acceptable.
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For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm."
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Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else
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Nao tem de ser assim tao ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisoes e criada por nos mesmos. Um homem tambem faz a propria liberdade.
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Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?"
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A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.
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I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.
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All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out.
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They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle between dragons and men, my love, it is not only the Elderlings who must decide where they stand, but you and me as well.
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The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.
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I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.
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The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night
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I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.
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Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
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secrets
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You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan for you. I have been a captive, a toy for heartless men. I made them fear me. It is why they sought to sell me. It was why your father could buy my freedom.' 'I do not know that tale.' 'It is a dark and sad one.
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Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every
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When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all
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We were one thing. Whole.
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Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz"
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I wish they would all go away. Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.
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love
forgotten
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As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside
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Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The
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For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.
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sorrow
sadness
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The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
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How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?
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And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.
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pain
sorrow
stupid
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It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are ...' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.
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There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
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future
path
chance
focus
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Robin Hobb |
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that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?
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Robin Hobb |
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his touch sketched the window of her freedom as she danced.
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Robin Hobb |
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There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.
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