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GRIGSBY: Ship's cat. Orange and obnoxious.
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Robin Hobb |
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Reminding myself that these "servants" might be better born than myself, I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all servants or royalty, be treated with the same courtesy."
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Robin Hobb |
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One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.
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Robin Hobb |
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Will you be all right?" she asked me. It was not an empty question; she genuinely listened for my reply. "In time," I told her, and for the first time, I admitted that was true. As disloyal as the thought felt, I knew that as time passed, I would be myself again. And in that moment, I felt for the first time the sensation that Black Rolf had tried to describe to me. The wolfish part of my soul stirred, and, I heard near as clearly as if ..
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grief
loss
love
grieving-process
recovery
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Robin Hobb |
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I tried a last time. "When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes--"
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Robin Hobb |
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Most of being a woman hurts.
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Robin Hobb |
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Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
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Robin Hobb |
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Each must be discouraged, but not completely denied all possibility. Men, she had discovered, were ruled by their imaginations in that regard.
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Robin Hobb |
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When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
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Robin Hobb |
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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.
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Robin Hobb |
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And that is what you would truly wish, little one? To stop being yourself, before you have even completed yourself? There is so much more you could grow to be.
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Robin Hobb |
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Explanations had seldom worked between us. Trust had.
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Robin Hobb |
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Amazing what folk will take comfort in when there's nothing else to hold on to.
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Robin Hobb |
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I suppose I cannot blame you for doubting me. I could scarcely believe it myself at first. I found all sorts of ways to deny it and explain it away. But it wouldn't stay gone.
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Robin Hobb |
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If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.
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Robin Hobb |
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I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea's featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.
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Robin Hobb |
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It is the way of the young to accept the debilitations of old age very gracefully on behalf of their elderly parents. And
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shall." I think I finally guessed then what"
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No todos los hombres estan destinados a hacer grandes cosas --le recorde. --?Estas seguro, Traspie? ?Estas seguro de eso? ?De que sirve vivir la vida si no ha de suponer ninguna diferencia para el devenir del mundo? Me cuesta imaginar algo mas triste. [...] ?Por que no iba a decir a su vecino el granjero que planta una semilla, esta semilla que planto hoy dara de comer a alguien algun dia, y asi es como yo hoy cambio el mundo?>>
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Robin Hobb |
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Horns not grown, he swings his head in warning and still all take heed.
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Robin Hobb |
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for some time. She's long past her bearing years now. Nettle will be our only daughter.' His face softened. 'I'm sorry, Fitz. I've been told that nothing completes a man's life in quite the way that children do. I know that you wanted--' I interrupted. 'I had the raising of Hap. I flatter myself that I did well enough for a man handed an eight-year-old orphan at short notice. He keeps in touch with me still, when his travels and minstrel du..
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Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.
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Robin Hobb |
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many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.
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Robin Hobb |
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They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.
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Robin Hobb |
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Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.
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Robin Hobb |
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It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet to feel angry that the need existed.
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Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes.
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Robin Hobb |
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Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you,
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Robin Hobb |
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She held his hand and did not look down nor back.
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Robin Hobb |
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I was lonely, and the lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
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Robin Hobb |
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider
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Robin Hobb |
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Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn't I gone with them, to listen to a bedtime story or nursery song?
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Robin Hobb |
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I wince to think of the price willingly paid for loving me.
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Robin Hobb |
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A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft.
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Robin Hobb |
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.
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Robin Hobb |
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But when all roads lead to death, there is no point to running down any of them.
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Robin Hobb |
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The price was my healthy young body, so long taken for granted.
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Robin Hobb |
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How can I know what I'll do, until I've done it? How can I say?
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Robin Hobb |
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Oh, I have known a few that did want to stop. And I have known a few that did stop. And it ended the same, whether they wanted to or not.
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Robin Hobb |
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.
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Robin Hobb |
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I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.
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Robin Hobb |
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The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.
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Robin Hobb |
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Esta en la naturaleza del mundo que todas las cosas busquen un ritmo, y en ese ritmo anhelen una especie de paz?
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Robin Hobb |
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This is a day for things to break, he thought. My heart. The fellowship of the folk who had come here together. We all move apart from one another today.
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Robin Hobb |