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