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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
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Men
Life
Sword
Flesh
Alone
Woman
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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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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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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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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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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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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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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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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.
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