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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

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
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Less
Yesterdays
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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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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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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