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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.

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
Human
Humans
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Someday
Thing
Killed
Things
Meat
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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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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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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