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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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
Velvet
Gloves
Diplomacy
Fists
Power
Glove
Cloaks
Fist

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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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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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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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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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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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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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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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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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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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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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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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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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