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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?

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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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