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and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.
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death
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Robin Hobb |
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It is common for folk who are not Witted to think that those of us with Old Blood can talk to any animal. We can't. The Wit is a mutual exchange, a sharing of thoughts. Some creatures are more open than others; some cats will not only talk to anyone, but will natter on or nag or pester with absolutely no restraint. Even the person with only the tiniest shred of the Wit will find themselves standing to open the door before the cat has scratc..
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There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.
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pain
truth
find
move-on
peace
honor
forget
dishonor
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Robin Hobb |
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02b10b9
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It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.' Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to live.
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Robin Hobb |
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25a64fd
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Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.
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Robin Hobb |
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f1e3483
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You can't die from seasickness, but you wish you could.
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Robin Hobb |
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c2dc70b
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I remember that dress. It is quite old, isn't it? Didn't you wear it to one of the parties you gave to announce Keffria's wedding to Kyle? It takes years off your face. You must be quite proud to be able to squeeze yourself into it still." Ronica shook her head at the old family friend. "Davad Restart. Only you can so completely ruin so many compliments in one brief speech."
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Robin Hobb |
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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 ten 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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Robin Hobb |
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dd7af19
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Love can exist without need
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Robin Hobb |
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a00f372
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When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?
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Robin Hobb |
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b249d1e
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But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.
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Robin Hobb |
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Each circle spins off a circle of its own. Each one seems a new thing but in truth it is not. It is just our most recent attempt to correct old errors, to undo old wrongs done to us, and to make up for things we have neglected. In each cycle, we may correct old errors, but I think we make as many new ones. Yet what is our alternative? To commit the same old errors again? Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage..
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Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us. So
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Robin Hobb |
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7b51976
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If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.
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Robin Hobb |
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Then in general charge of the pack beasts and wagon animals. But it wasn't just work he taught me. Cleanliness. Honesty. He put a value on what my mother and grandmother had tried to instill in me so long ago. He showed them to me as a man's values, not just manners for inside a woman's house. He taught me to be a man, not a beast in a man's shape. He made me see it was more than rules, it was a way of being. A life, rather than a living." ..
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1092e2b
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Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?"
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Robin Hobb |
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43db59d
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Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched.
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Robin Hobb |
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37596ee
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If it was raining soup, you'd be out there with a fork.
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aa45e4b
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Elliania wore her cloak of narwhals and bucks, and somehow a doublet that matched it perfectly had been created for the Prince. Dutiful's simple coronet had been replaced with an ornate harvest crown, and in that I saw Chade's subtle hand, for he displayed the Prince as a crowned king before his dukes. Ceremonial it might be, yet it could not fail to leave an impression. Elliania was crowned, as well. Whereas the Prince wore a crown of gild..
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Robin Hobb |
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Fish? No fish. Sorry. "Sorry" is not fish. What good is "sorry"?"
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Robin Hobb |
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f6b9b49
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One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. --
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Robin Hobb |
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aabe63c
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Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.
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Robin Hobb |
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99d98a5
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the fight isn't over until you've won.
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Robin Hobb |
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ef1d7fb
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I am quite safe, I assure you. But, even if I were not, I have the habits of a lifetime to protect me. And Lacey." "Lacey?" I could not keep incredulity from my voice nor a grin from my face. I turned to exchange a wink with Lacey. Lacey glared at me as if affronted by my smile. Before I could even unfold from the hearth, Lacey sprang up from her rocking chair. A long needle, stripped of its eternal yarn, prodded my jugular vein, while the ..
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Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.
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Robin Hobb |
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6cc990b
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Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.
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inner-peace
peace
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Robin Hobb |
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74db6bc
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You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.
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Robin Hobb |
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79027f6
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How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?' The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. 'That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest of it to stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.
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Robin Hobb |
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e769798
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Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who
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Robin Hobb |
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9570dce
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I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.
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Robin Hobb |
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878a1d2
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It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.
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fantasy
inspirational
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Robin Hobb |
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5b67278
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You can't go back," she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' " She" --
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Blind funny little creatures they were, fumbling in the midst of a love they feared to acknowledge. To win, all they had to do was surrender but they could not perceive that. The beauty of what they could have been together made him ache. Is was a love he had been seeking all his life, a love to redeem and perfect him. That which he most desired, they feared and avoided.
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Robin Hobb |
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335b339
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Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
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Robin Hobb |
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d98eb79
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At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had ..
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Robin Hobb |
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Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.
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Robin Hobb |
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268375f
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Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
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opportunity
truth
idea
implement
meet
occur
quality
make
ideas
unique
creativity
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Robin Hobb |
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59846d7
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As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
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responsibility
freedom
reality
truth
duties
duty
emancipation
end
obligation
outcome
responsibilities
sever
ties
release
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Robin Hobb |
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1f6eba9
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I stood for a time, overlooking the calm sea. Under the bright morning sun, it looked like hammered blue metal. A very light breeze came off it and stirred my hair. I felt as if someone had spoken words aloud to me and I echoed them. "Time for a change." p. 103"
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Robin Hobb |
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7a72f7a
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With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare nearby that I sensed. I knew the scintillant forms of the myriad insects that populated the grasses, and felt even the shadowy life force of the great oak that lifted its limbs between the moon and me. Just up the hillside, a rabbit crouched motionless in the summer grasses. I felt its indistinct presence, not as a piece of life located in ..
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Robin Hobb |
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90b48d3
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Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove, you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today, but what might grow tomorrow, to do with as you pleas..
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Robin Hobb |
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ac75d35
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We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world. To reach out and hold in place the tiny pebble that could trigger the boulder's tumbling.
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Robin Hobb |
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dad24f3
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an Elderling named Sedric was raising the child with Carson.
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Robin Hobb |
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4abf762
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His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.' He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.
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sorrow
death
love
whole
fitz
fool
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