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

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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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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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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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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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