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Ours was a ragged and uneven parting. Each of us had intended to see the other again. Each of us had had final words to say. My days with the Fool ended like a half-played game of Stones, the outcome poised and uncertain, possibilities hovering. 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. It is like the anticipation that a clever minstrel evokes when..
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But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.
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life-quotes
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Robin Hobb |
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Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then," she replied sweetly. "That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you ..
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Robin Hobb |
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But you don't know what will happen.' 'No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, "Oh, that is what that meant. If only I'd known". It can break your heart."
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Robin Hobb |
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We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.
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Robin Hobb |
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8572597
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As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.
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revelation
sorrow
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Robin Hobb |
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fc17429
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Dragon droppings?" Per asked in awe, as if that were the most fantastic part of their tale."
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Robin Hobb |
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It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any ..
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Robin Hobb |
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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Robin Hobb |
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6eebb04
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It's an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps
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Robin Hobb |
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We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.
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fitz
fool
head
heart
imagine
longing
smile
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Robin Hobb |
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The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.
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cats
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If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest." --
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Robin Hobb |
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There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war, nor the strength to warriors. I've seen this strength in old women with the coughing sickness and heard of it in families that are starving together. It drives one to go on, past hope or despair, past blood loss and gut wounds, past death itself in a final surge to save something that is cherished. It is courage without hope. Du..
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Robin Hobb |
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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 part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. 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, so..
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choose
connection
depart
done
final
finish
friendship
leave
love
over
pain
part-ways
relationship
return
separate
sever
soul
wait
well
wish
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You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. 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." "p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz"
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It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be.
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Robin Hobb |
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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 life will do you or anyone else.
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inspirational
turning-point
wintrow
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Robin Hobb |
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Men cannot grieve as dogs do.
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Robin Hobb |
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997a249
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You can't undo yesterday's journey.
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Robin Hobb |
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When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all.
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Robin Hobb |
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I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn't sleeping and it isn't waking and it isn't rest.
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Robin Hobb |
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Ten times dead was very dead indeed.
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Robin Hobb |
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9358e2d
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Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich's stable boy. Perhaps our relationship had changed too profoundly for us to relate as Fitz and the Fool. Perhaps Tom Badgerlock and Lord Golden were all that was left to us.
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I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!
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love
revelation
sadness
truth
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Robin Hobb |
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db01902
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That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
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Robin Hobb |
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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Robin Hobb |
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869756b
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We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart.
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Robin Hobb |
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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Robin Hobb |
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No matter what name they call us by, you will always be mine. And I am yours, Bee. And I will always do everything in my power to protect you. Do you understand that?... I will always need you. I will always want you to be part of my life. Do you understand that?
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Robin Hobb |
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There are moments that change the course of one's lifetime, and often we don't realize how significant those initial may be until years pass.
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Robin Hobb |
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There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I
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Robin Hobb |
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I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.
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Robin Hobb |
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He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.
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Robin Hobb |
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Dawn," Thymara scoffed. "I think the dragons meant, "After we wake up and when we feel like it."
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Robin Hobb |
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Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.
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Robin Hobb |
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Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.
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Robin Hobb |
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24b3c0a
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They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.
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nature
trees
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Robin Hobb |
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89cdde7
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Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
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Robin Hobb |
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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.
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fitz
fool
hit
hurt
knowledge
measure
pain
passage
realization
realize
time
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Robin Hobb |
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bfba2b0
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I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.
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change
charm
delight
discover
elixir
familiar
find
know
knowledge
love
man
men
minstrel
playboy
potion
sincere
sincerity
time
true
truth
woman
women
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Robin Hobb |
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Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them to trust you, you touch them when they are small. Gently, but firmly, so they believe in your strength, too. You don't shout at them, or make sudden moves that look threatening. You give them good feed and clean water, and keep them clean and give them shelter from the weather. You don't take out your temper on them..
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Robin Hobb |
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Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.
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cub
fitz
fool
lies
love
nighteyes
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Robin Hobb |
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He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!
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fool
nighteyes
the-hunt
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Robin Hobb |