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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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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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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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