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Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.
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Robin Hobb |
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My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
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Robin Hobb |
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and eve..
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Robin Hobb |
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I made a sudden decision. "and my dog has followed me from town and cought up with us here. I left him with friends, but he must have chewed his rope. here, boy, come to heel." I'll chew your heel off for you, Nighteyes offerd savagely, but he came, following me out into the cleared yard. "Damn big dog," Nick observed. He leaned forward. "looks more than half a wolf to me." "Some in Farrow have told me that. It's a buck breed. We use them..
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Robin Hobb |
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A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.
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Robin Hobb |
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I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being "heartbroken" or "heavy-hearted" but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandons you."
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Robin Hobb |
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I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.
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Robin Hobb |
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If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.
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bad
bad-habit
befall
befell
complain
depression
dragon
fear
future
happen
hoard
loss
mourn
much
occur
occurence
past
predict
sadness
sorrow
tendency
wallow
woe
woes
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Robin Hobb |
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I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully.
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Robin Hobb |
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there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.
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distract
empty
fond
fondness
have
miss
remember
reminiscence
seek
sigh
sorrow
want
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Robin Hobb |
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We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.
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Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.
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honesty
invite
memories
memory
pain
pains
ponder
remember
reminiscence
summon
truth
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There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them."
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Robin Hobb |
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Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.
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Robin Hobb |
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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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Robin Hobb |
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Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn't that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get a glimpse of the person and it all comes back again, in a big rush. But even that's not what you're looking for. What you're looking for is the feeling that no matter what, being with that person is always going to be better than being without ..
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That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'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..
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aside
be
complete
dead
decide
destiny
discover
done
end
fate
finish
forget
forgo
future
good
honesty
life
meant
not
over
part
past
path
present
section
set
survive
to
truth
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That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm."
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Robin Hobb |
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How strange to be loved simply for who I was.
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Robin Hobb |
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I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.
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Robin Hobb |
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finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.
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Robin Hobb |
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Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.
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Robin Hobb |
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That was Verity's way. MOnths had passed since we had last spoken but he took no times for greetings. Chade said it was a lack in him, that he didn't make his men feel their importance to him. I think he believed that if anything significant had happened to me, someone would have told him. He had a bluff heartiness to him that I enjoyed, an attitude that things must be going well unless someone ahd told him otherwise.
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verity
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Robin Hobb |
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Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.' 'And we both emerged stronger.' 'We both emerged', I modified his words.
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Robin Hobb |
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Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.
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I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.
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duties
fate
freedom
life-lessons
responsibility
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Robin Hobb |
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But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity."
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Robin Hobb |
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Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.
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Robin Hobb |
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Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?
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edge
excitement
forbidden
pleasure
romance
sweet
taboo
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Robin Hobb |
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59d7912
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We are whole
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nighteyes
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Robin Hobb |
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142f40c
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But all fires, of wood or grief, burn down to ashes eventually.
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Robin Hobb |
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4962852
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We all perish in our last attempt to live.
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Robin Hobb |
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There is always power in holding a secret.
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Robin Hobb |
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You can deny it. But I have been with you, in every way that matters. As you have been with me. We've shared our thoughts and our food, bound each other's wounds, slept close when the warmth of our bodies was all we had left to share. Your tears have fallen on my face, and my blood has been on your hands. You've carried me when I was dead, and I carried you when I did not even recognize you. You've breathed my breath for me, sheltered me in..
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Robin Hobb |
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I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
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Robin Hobb |
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Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.
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life
live
mess
see
time
truth
wait
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Robin Hobb |
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You are not a man as ordinary men are. They think they have a right to all beasts; to hunt them and eat them, or to subjugate them and rule their lives. You know you have no such right to mastery. The horse that carries you will do so because he wishes to, as does the wolf that hunts beside you. You have a deeper sense of yourself in the world. You believe you have a right, not to rule it, but to be part of it. Predator or prey; there is no..
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reminding
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Robin Hobb |
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I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.
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Robin Hobb |
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Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.
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Robin Hobb |
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Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.
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capture
change
fade
fled
flower
history
hold-on
past
preserve
reality
remember
time
write
writing
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Robin Hobb |
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Dragons. A sky full of dragons.
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Robin Hobb |
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Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.
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fitzchivalry-farseer
old-wit
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Robin Hobb |
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A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.
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Robin Hobb |
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Die in your dreams, wake up insane.
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Robin Hobb |