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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.

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
Sharing
Sure
Pain
Business
Doesn
Mind
Fitz
Loosen

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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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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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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.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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