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9fa3c3f
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All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet.
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Robin Hobb |
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5524c6a
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You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
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excuse
expect
expectations
fail
failure
hard
intervene
intervention
lesson
mistake
perfect
talk
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Robin Hobb |
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4466e03
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You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Lo..
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fitzchivalry-farseer
kettle
letting-go
love
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Robin Hobb |
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b949655
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Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are."
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regret
truth
useless
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Robin Hobb |
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f79e97a
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Having something explained to you does not always solve it.
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Robin Hobb |
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7a02c63
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Only my pain is more silent than my anger.
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Robin Hobb |
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3f7cba8
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That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.
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gender
robin-hobb
the-fool
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Robin Hobb |
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9ebd2d6
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Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.
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Robin Hobb |
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793ce06
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I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.
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Robin Hobb |
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d18e7ae
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One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.
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Robin Hobb |
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c4fb77c
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He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.
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cold
depression
devastation
disappointment
emotion
empty
numb
pain
peace
sadness
ship
sorrow
storm
tragedy
way
woman
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Robin Hobb |
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3f9baf5
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Robin Hobb |
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303458c
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Starling tries to seduce Fitz. "Be with me" she said simply "Just for here. Just for now. With gentleness and friendship. To take...the other away. Give me that much of yourself." I wanted her. I wanted her with a desperation that had nothing to do with love, and even, I believe, little to do with lust. She was warm and alive and it would have been sweet and simple human comfort. If I could have been with her and arisen from it unchanged in..
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Robin Hobb |
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fe7984b
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Surprise!-FitzChivalry
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Robin Hobb |
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10fcaea
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A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.
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Robin Hobb |
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091444d
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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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a1c05b2
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Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
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Robin Hobb |
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7f5eb3c
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You," I surmised, and gestured round. "Thank you." "No," he denied. His pale hair floated out from beneath his cap in a halo as he shook his head. "But I assisted. Thank you for bathing. It makes my task of checking on you less onerous. I'm glad you're awake. You snore abominably." I let this comment pass. "You've grown." I observed. "Yes. So have you. And you've been sick. And you slept quite a long time. And now you're awake and bathed a..
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humour
robin-hobb
the-fool
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Robin Hobb |
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33d15a2
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I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of p..
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fitz
fitzchivalry-farseer
fool
robin-hobb
skill
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Robin Hobb |
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2042563
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And a Fool is supposed to be wise?
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Robin Hobb |
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c91340e
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I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it."
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Robin Hobb |
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95237b8
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Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful act must beget another worse one that would lead to yet a third. It came to me, slowly, that this chain would never end.
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Robin Hobb |
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92849d1
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Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.
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Robin Hobb |
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69d663e
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The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, per..
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Robin Hobb |
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17e9403
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A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.
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Robin Hobb |
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2ecc47e
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Starling lowered her voice, but it carried anyway. "He is FitzChivalry, son of Chivalry the Abdicated. And you are the Fool." "Once, perhaps, I was the Fool. It is common knowledge here in Jhaampe. But now I am the Toymaker. As I no longer use the other title, you may take it for yourself if you wish. As for Tom, I believe he takes the title Bed Bolster these days." "I will be seeing the Queen about this." "A wise decision. If you wish to b..
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Robin Hobb |
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e3fc4bb
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I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.
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Robin Hobb |
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b0e4b50
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I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave.
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Robin Hobb |
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f413a65
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Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.
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fool
old-wit
smithy
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Robin Hobb |
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8de45eb
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To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
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community
duties
family
friendship
relationship
responsibility
rules
socialism
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Robin Hobb |
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6c0f5bf
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We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far.
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together
whole
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Robin Hobb |
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7c5a933
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Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.
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Robin Hobb |
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faa0355
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The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.
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Robin Hobb |
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af2e903
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If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
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enough
hunger
infidelity
looking
need
possession
release
roaming
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Robin Hobb |
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f5fceaa
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When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. 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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d138372
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Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
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beginnings-and-endings
endings
pain
regret
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Robin Hobb |
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bebd0ab
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Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.
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Robin Hobb |
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2b29eae
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In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
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awaken
contemplate
depression
full
numb
pain
remember
sorrow
stillness
wakefulness
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Robin Hobb |
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f8d5e28
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Once one knows what heartless people can do, it cannot be entirely forgotten. It always remains among the possible things that can befall you.
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Robin Hobb |
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baafef2
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when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.
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Robin Hobb |
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963622f
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As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.
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understanding
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Robin Hobb |
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1dee002
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Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.
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secret
secrets
trust
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Robin Hobb |
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7ccfc58
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Some calls you cannot ignore, no matter how it may tear your heart.
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Robin Hobb |
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fd9be33
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some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.
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betray
betrayal
confront
desire
love
reveal
secret
undeclared
unspoken
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Robin Hobb |