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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
Every
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Characters
Writer
Story
Actually
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Character

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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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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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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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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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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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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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But a living is not a life.
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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 think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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