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c7b61b5	Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.	friendship	Robin Hobb
4588032	Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.		Robin Hobb
18ccf90	Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.		Robin Hobb
0a8bbfb	Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to.	fool	Robin Hobb
170159e	That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.		Robin Hobb
3036a5b	Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I..		Robin Hobb
e76a2f2	Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.		Robin Hobb
e5dd3f7	There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.	mourning time loss depression sorrow start ending beginning coincide initiate lead mark sign numb mourn empty passage show end space	Robin Hobb
d2149c8	All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.		Robin Hobb
6519c35	If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.		Robin Hobb
b1836f7	This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.		Robin Hobb
feae7ba	Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.	silence predator prey scare whine silent wolf cry worry fright	Robin Hobb
287dfda	You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick		Robin Hobb
04db274	We are pack!	pack wolf nighteyes	Robin Hobb
287f691	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
38069f8	There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.		Robin Hobb
a67f997	When we are children, we believe that our elders know all and that even when we cannot understand the world, they can make sense of it. Even after we are grown, in moments of fear or sorrow, we still turn instinctively to the older generation, hoping to finally learn some great hidden lesson about death and pain. Only to learn instead that the only lesson is that life goes on.		Robin Hobb
565ddf6	There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.		Robin Hobb
cf294ce	My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.		Robin Hobb
67d0b70	It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Love me even if I hated. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred trust. It was Smithy.	smithy old-wit	Robin Hobb
7e78d55	Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.		Robin Hobb
b5e21dc	All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.		Robin Hobb
8d57c64	One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.		Robin Hobb
59c6455	The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.		Robin Hobb
e1d6673	To Fitz and the Fool. My best friends for over twenty years.		Robin Hobb
018933f	Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.	fair rule bite brawl killer lawless murderer no-holds-barred poisoner ruthless skirmish strike lose win pride fight	Robin Hobb
fbbc14b	Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.		Robin Hobb
2d264cb	sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.		Robin Hobb
3a0cdf1	So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day		Robin Hobb
f1af95d	Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind, and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be. Do you understand that?		Robin Hobb
385f758	I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.	nature	Robin Hobb
496cccf	When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.		Robin Hobb
ebe7988	Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.	sharing-pain nighteyes	Robin Hobb
4e2bec8	There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.	good choice reality truth worse worst bad decide decision choices evil	Robin Hobb
876c9c1	One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.		Robin Hobb
0d07c4f	Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.		Robin Hobb
f650165	You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us." He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history."		Robin Hobb
624b8fe	If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.		Robin Hobb
132261a	I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.	mankind nature fear wisdom robin-hobb fitz	Robin Hobb
8c0cbdd	Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.		Robin Hobb
64f5d26	Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.		Robin Hobb
520670b	Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.	love	Robin Hobb
3211eb5	A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.	sleep	Robin Hobb
1d2477e	I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.		Robin Hobb

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

Robin Hobb

4588032

Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law.

Robin Hobb

18ccf90

Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.

Robin Hobb

0a8bbfb

Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to.

fool

Robin Hobb

170159e

That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Robin Hobb

3036a5b

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I..

Robin Hobb

e76a2f2

Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.

Robin Hobb

e5dd3f7

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

mourning time loss depression sorrow start ending beginning coincide initiate lead mark sign numb mourn empty passage show end space

Robin Hobb

d2149c8

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

Robin Hobb

6519c35

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.

Robin Hobb

b1836f7

This is our last hunt, old wolf. And as we have always done, we go to it together.

Robin Hobb

feae7ba

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

silence predator prey scare whine silent wolf cry worry fright

Robin Hobb

287dfda

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Robin Hobb

04db274

We are pack!

pack wolf nighteyes

Robin Hobb

287f691

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

38069f8

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Robin Hobb

a67f997

When we are children, we believe that our elders know all and that even when we cannot understand the world, they can make sense of it. Even after we are grown, in moments of fear or sorrow, we still turn instinctively to the older generation, hoping to finally learn some great hidden lesson about death and pain. Only to learn instead that the only lesson is that life goes on.

Robin Hobb

565ddf6

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Robin Hobb

cf294ce

My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.

Robin Hobb

67d0b70

It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Love me even if I hated. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred trust. It was Smithy.

smithy old-wit

Robin Hobb

7e78d55

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

Robin Hobb

b5e21dc

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.

Robin Hobb

8d57c64

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

Robin Hobb

59c6455

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

e1d6673

To Fitz and the Fool. My best friends for over twenty years.

Robin Hobb

018933f

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

fair rule bite brawl killer lawless murderer no-holds-barred poisoner ruthless skirmish strike lose win pride fight

Robin Hobb

fbbc14b

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.

Robin Hobb

2d264cb

sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Robin Hobb

3a0cdf1

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

Robin Hobb

f1af95d

Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind, and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the uneven earth. But the tree continues to be. Do you understand that?

Robin Hobb

385f758

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

nature

Robin Hobb

496cccf

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

Robin Hobb

ebe7988

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

sharing-pain nighteyes

Robin Hobb

4e2bec8

There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.

good choice reality truth worse worst bad decide decision choices evil

Robin Hobb

876c9c1

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

Robin Hobb

0d07c4f

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.

Robin Hobb

f650165

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us." He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history."

Robin Hobb

624b8fe

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

Robin Hobb

132261a

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

mankind nature fear wisdom robin-hobb fitz

Robin Hobb

8c0cbdd

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

Robin Hobb

64f5d26

Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

Robin Hobb

520670b

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

love

Robin Hobb

3211eb5

A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.

sleep

Robin Hobb

1d2477e

I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.

Robin Hobb