Robin Hobb - Assassin's Quest (1997)

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

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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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To free humanity of time. For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that ages us, time that limits us. Think how often you have wished to have more time for something, or wished you could go back a day and do something differently. When humanity is freed of time, old wrongs can be corrected before they are done.

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If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

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