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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

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
Enough
Died
Flicker
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Correctly
Made
Wasn
Faded
Life
Simply
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Oops
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Apologized
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Panic
Raced
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Hadn
Speck
Away
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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 greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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