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6be0ae7
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You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.
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Robin Hobb |
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To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living."
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Robin Hobb |
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You have been with me, as close as the tips of my fingers, even when we were years and seas apart. Your being was like the hum of a plucked string at the edge of my hearing, or a scent carried on a breeze. Did not you feel it so?
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Robin Hobb |
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8cee5ba
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Fishing and ear scratching the two reasons men were given hands.
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night-eyes
wolf
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Robin Hobb |
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ca5e07c
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Robin Hobb |
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No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be.' " She lifted her eyes and her gaze stabbed him. "Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your l..
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Robin Hobb |
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If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.
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Robin Hobb |
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He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.
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Robin Hobb |
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I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were to one another. What we had went beyond that.
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love
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Robin Hobb |
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What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not.
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Robin Hobb |
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Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.
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Robin Hobb |
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To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go.
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Robin Hobb |
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There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.' Kettricken smiled.
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fitz
fool
hunt
kettricken
nighteyes
wolf
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Robin Hobb |
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One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat's loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.
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Robin Hobb |
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Dragons don't bother with introductions.
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Robin Hobb |
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His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He couldn't say the word, but I knew it. And so did his Fool.
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Robin Hobb |
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When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. 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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Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.
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Robin Hobb |
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Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not."
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Robin Hobb |
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I'd rather I was a stray pup,' I made bold to say. And then all my fears broke my voice as I added, "You wouldn't let them do this to a stray pup, changing everything all at once. When they gave the bloodhound puppy to Lord Grimsby, you sent your old shirt with it, so it would have something that smelled of home until it settle in.' 'Well,' he said, "I didn't ... come here, fitz. Come here, boy.' And puppy-like, I went to him, the only mast..
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fitzchivalry-farseer
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Robin Hobb |
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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. Don't waste time on it.
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Robin Hobb |
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Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater."
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Robin Hobb |
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I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster.
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Robin Hobb |
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Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as times goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we ..
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Robin Hobb |
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You never miss the water until the well runs dry.
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Robin Hobb |
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King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
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humor
meeting
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Robin Hobb |
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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Robin Hobb |
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It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.
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Robin Hobb |
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Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time."
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chance
conceit
human
improve
opportunity
promise
strive
time
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Robin Hobb |
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back.
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Robin Hobb |
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My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying.
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upbringing
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Robin Hobb |
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For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life."
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Robin Hobb |
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The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;
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Robin Hobb |
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None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.
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Robin Hobb |
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Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to.
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Robin Hobb |
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I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
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Robin Hobb |
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6800d0d
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I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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Robin Hobb |
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Leave that. Leave all that and join us here. There is no loneliness, no separation at all. No aching bones, no worn-out bodies. It's not what they told us, Fitz! All those warnings and dire predictions . . . faugh! The world will go on without us just as well as it did with us. Just let go. I'm holding you tight. Keeping you part of me. It's like learning to swim. You can't find out how until you're all the way into the water. Stop clinging..
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Robin Hobb |
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f407d66
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Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.
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Robin Hobb |
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b9c3139
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Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time.
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Robin Hobb |
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Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated.
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Robin Hobb |
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The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
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Robin Hobb |
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a2f47ec
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Robin Hobb |
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b7f1e1f
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Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.
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Robin Hobb |