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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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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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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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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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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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