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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ca0f286 | They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised. Many will feel this who have felt that they could love, and whose hearts tell them that they are worthy to be loved again; while yet they are debarred, by the lack of this or some such seeming trifle, from g.. | love | Anne Brontë | |
| 1876892 | Oh, they have robbed me of the hope. My spirit held so dear; They will not let me hear that voice My soul delights to hear. They will not let me see that face I so delight to see; And they have taken all thy smiles. And all thy love from me. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ba2d900 | He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him. | hate | Anne Brontë | |
| 7769f6b | It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. | cats dislike dogs men pets women | Anne Brontë | |
| 59debd5 | They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 68eec65 | Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result | happiness love marriage reality-of-life sorrows | Anne Brontë | |
| 87904ff | There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 73df0cc | He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. | cleanliness desire dirty disorder long mess organized peace pure seek tidiness tidy | Robin Hobb | |
| d3fb11b | I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1ac6e6f | I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c341ba7 | refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 89feb88 | I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry. | humor women | Robin Hobb | |
| d90ac79 | I don't think I can stand it much longer," he warned her. "Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me... I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation... I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5b4e9b8 | Death fed life. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3db08e6 | He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water into the cup and a bowl. Ginger and cinnamon wafted toward me. "All of time, every sliced instant of it, is rich with vertices of choices. One becomes accustomed to that, to the point at which sometimes even I have to stop and remind myself that I am making choices, even when I do not seem to be. Every indrawn bre.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5c16ee5 | In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them. But | Robin Hobb | ||
| 65f44b2 | Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8c6d339 | Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9b420fc | Malta," he said, and smiled. "Possibly the most annoying young female I've ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 75a914c | We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d802870 | I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually, | Robin Hobb | ||
| 835c1bf | Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f21e97b | He reaches forward slowly, to lift the pen from my lax grip. Wearily I regard the faltering trail of ink it has tracked down my page. I have seen that shape before, I think, but it was not ink then. A trickle of drying blood on the deck of a Red-Ship, and mine the hand that spilled it? Or was it a tendril of smoke rising black against a blue sky as I rode too late to warn a village of a Red-Ship raid? Or poison swirling and unfurling yellow.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2a193c7 | Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 776a47e | The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would have found it impossible. But I was young then, much younger than I suspected, and somehow I found the energy and time to do and be it all. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 77b7989 | It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world, | Robin Hobb | ||
| f014e46 | There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 04feba1 | Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.' She frowned up at him. 'Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?' 'Perhaps people have a right to their pain,' he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, 'Perhaps they even need it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 490a90a | a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that I had an emotional attachment to my own flesh. My deep desire to keep it functioning well surpassed simple avoidance of pain. A man takes pride in his body. When it is damaged, it is more than a physical thing. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 69b6b02 | I have to let you go,' he said in a cracked whisper. 'While I can. Leave me that, Fitz. That broke the bond. That I did not take what was not mine. | love spoiler the-fool | Robin Hobb | |
| f184354 | A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. | Robin Hobb | ||
| dd80612 | There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. | defend dishonor hold honor maintain power safeguard | Robin Hobb | |
| 2ed134e | You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf's ears. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 70f274c | She is dead. Dead so many years. Who could imagine that death lasts so much longer than life? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 73a8723 | His heart had pounded with joy at the thought that he might catch her, might playfully hold her in his arms, for just a moment. They were children, I suddenly saw, children at play, only a handful of years older than I was now. They had never grown older, neither one of them, not really. All their lives she had remained that girl to him, that wondrous girl just a few years older than he was, but so worldly wise, so female to all that was so.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1f75ef7 | That is true. I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b2cd64f | It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.' 'That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?' He raised his brows. 'Petition?' 'Isn't that what prayer is? Begging the gods to give you what you want?' He laughed, his voice deep as a booming wind, but kinder. 'I suppose that is how some men pray. Not I. Not anymore.' 'What do you mean?' 'Oh, I think that children pray so, to find a lo.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 91cc782 | So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4e02f6a | Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8fe9ebd | I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4b4f8a2 | Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me. | important sadness | Robin Hobb | |
| fdadc11 | And tomorrow we'll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn't kill you after all. | coping-mechanism life teachings | Robin Hobb | |
| 53b0764 | It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how. | letting-go love | Robin Hobb | |
| a2d3714 | You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz" | Robin Hobb |