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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.
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No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
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Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.
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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.
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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.
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Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin
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Born:
March 5, 1952
(age 72)
Bio:
Robin Hobb is the pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American writer.
Known for:
Assassin's Apprentice (1995)
Fool's Assassin (2014)
Fool's Quest (2015)
Royal Assassin (1996)
Assassin's Quest (1997)
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