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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

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
Life
Sword
Flesh
Alone
Woman
Give
Take
Giving
Men

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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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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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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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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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