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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.

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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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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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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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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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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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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