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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

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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Wrong
Prone
Tongue
Questions
Silence

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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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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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But a living is not a life.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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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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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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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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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed 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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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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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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