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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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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
Well
Tales
Richly
World
Realized
Heir
Magic
Conflicting
Strange
Helen
Told
Treachery
Dark
Heirs
Lowes
Night
Tale
Lowe
Wells
Loyalty
Loyalties

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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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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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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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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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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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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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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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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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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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