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Robin Hobb Inspirational Quotes (65)

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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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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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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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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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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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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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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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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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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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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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