Robin Hobb Quotes

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Stop longing.You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

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That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

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Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.

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For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

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Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

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Sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

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