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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

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
Life
Opposite
Opposites
Choice
Choices
Death

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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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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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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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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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