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ca113df	No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.		Robin Hobb
718ed72	Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Climbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skins Flew away on stony wings. Five Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Walked a road not up nor down Were torn to many and turned to one, In the end, left a task half-done Four Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town They spoke in words without a sound They begged their Queen to let them go And what became of them, no one can know. Three Wisemen came..		Robin Hobb
f6660e4	For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.		Robin Hobb
7678a18	Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.	dogs grief love farseer robin-hobb pets	Robin Hobb
f94f88f	His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.	loss life life-and-death grieve nature-of-things	Robin Hobb
6d2406d	Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.		Robin Hobb
2ecf315	The past is no further away than the last breath you took.	present	Robin Hobb
67cf71b	I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.	protection	Robin Hobb
af2037e	Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.		Robin Hobb
6518551	The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.		Robin Hobb
3df56ea	One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.		Robin Hobb
6c708c8	It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.		Robin Hobb
f6008f7	What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.		Robin Hobb
eb43237	Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?	wild-pigs	Robin Hobb
d2ac6ce	Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.		Robin Hobb
ed39d4f	I never confuse the cost of something with its value		Robin Hobb
1668a8a	When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.		Robin Hobb
9d5f6d8	Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?		Robin Hobb
669e7bb	Why can't people love one another and still remain free?" Althea demanded suddenly. Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. "One can love that way," she conceded regretfully. "But the price on that kind of love may be the highest of all." She strung her words together as carefully as she strung her beads. "To love another person like that, you have to admit that his life is as important as yours. Harder still, yo..		Robin Hobb
921d68b	How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice	the-fool	Robin Hobb
b4c050d	If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.		Robin Hobb
30a0e6d	Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.		Robin Hobb
50eae8e	To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.		Robin Hobb
6467a02	One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.		Robin Hobb
da85cf8	Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?	heart love	Robin Hobb
06074c9	One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.	life	Robin Hobb
ccfec73	People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.		Robin Hobb
c4ff72b	Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.		Robin Hobb
e14d90a	It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.	fitzchivalry-farseer	Robin Hobb
a8278c6	I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.	mourning grief loss depression sorrow death life hollow pass-by numb mourn empty ignore tears forget	Robin Hobb
e5751b5	I have heard it called a dance, I have heard it called a battle. Some men speak of it with a knowing laugh, some with a sneer. I have heard the study market women chuckling over it like hens clucking over bread crumbs; I have been approached by bawds who spoke their wares as boldly as peddlers hawking fresh fish. For myself, I think some things are beyond words. The color blue can only be experienced, as can the scent of jasmine or the soun..		Robin Hobb
6a58dbd	My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.		Robin Hobb
6352e6b	Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.		Robin Hobb
1a27716	Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.		Robin Hobb
4fe999c	I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and..		Robin Hobb
e75c5d3	Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.	kindness selfishness	Robin Hobb
7a70b9d	the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.		Robin Hobb
5901959	Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?	time	Robin Hobb
6016f19	Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.	nighteyes	Robin Hobb
b2ca5e4	To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.		Robin Hobb
147cda9	No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest	the-fool robin-hobb fitz	Robin Hobb
f5ae23f	The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some..	understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul	Robin Hobb
f24490f	You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will		Robin Hobb
1812056	Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.	past	Robin Hobb

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

Robin Hobb

718ed72

Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Climbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skins Flew away on stony wings. Five Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Walked a road not up nor down Were torn to many and turned to one, In the end, left a task half-done Four Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town They spoke in words without a sound They begged their Queen to let them go And what became of them, no one can know. Three Wisemen came..

Robin Hobb

f6660e4

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

Robin Hobb

7678a18

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

dogs grief love farseer robin-hobb pets

Robin Hobb

f94f88f

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

loss life life-and-death grieve nature-of-things

Robin Hobb

6d2406d

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Robin Hobb

2ecf315

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

present

Robin Hobb

67cf71b

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

protection

Robin Hobb

af2037e

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Robin Hobb

6518551

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Robin Hobb

3df56ea

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Robin Hobb

6c708c8

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Robin Hobb

f6008f7

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Robin Hobb

eb43237

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?

wild-pigs

Robin Hobb

d2ac6ce

Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.

Robin Hobb

ed39d4f

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Robin Hobb

1668a8a

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.

Robin Hobb

9d5f6d8

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Robin Hobb

669e7bb

Why can't people love one another and still remain free?" Althea demanded suddenly. Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. "One can love that way," she conceded regretfully. "But the price on that kind of love may be the highest of all." She strung her words together as carefully as she strung her beads. "To love another person like that, you have to admit that his life is as important as yours. Harder still, yo..

Robin Hobb

921d68b

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice

the-fool

Robin Hobb

b4c050d

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Robin Hobb

30a0e6d

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb

50eae8e

To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.

Robin Hobb

6467a02

One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.

Robin Hobb

da85cf8

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

heart love

Robin Hobb

06074c9

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

life

Robin Hobb

ccfec73

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Robin Hobb

c4ff72b

Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.

Robin Hobb

e14d90a

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

fitzchivalry-farseer

Robin Hobb

a8278c6

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

mourning grief loss depression sorrow death life hollow pass-by numb mourn empty ignore tears forget

Robin Hobb

e5751b5

I have heard it called a dance, I have heard it called a battle. Some men speak of it with a knowing laugh, some with a sneer. I have heard the study market women chuckling over it like hens clucking over bread crumbs; I have been approached by bawds who spoke their wares as boldly as peddlers hawking fresh fish. For myself, I think some things are beyond words. The color blue can only be experienced, as can the scent of jasmine or the soun..

Robin Hobb

6a58dbd

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Robin Hobb

6352e6b

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Robin Hobb

1a27716

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Robin Hobb

4fe999c

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and..

Robin Hobb

e75c5d3

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

kindness selfishness

Robin Hobb

7a70b9d

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Robin Hobb

5901959

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?

time

Robin Hobb

6016f19

Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

nighteyes

Robin Hobb

b2ca5e4

To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

Robin Hobb

147cda9

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

the-fool robin-hobb fitz

Robin Hobb

f5ae23f

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some..

understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul

Robin Hobb

f24490f

You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will

Robin Hobb

1812056

Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.

past

Robin Hobb