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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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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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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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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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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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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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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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