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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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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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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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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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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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