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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
Giving
Men
Life
Sword
Flesh
Alone
Woman
Give
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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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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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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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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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