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Robin Hobb Quote: “The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.”

401. “The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.”

402. “We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go. The memory was still there. It had not vanished, but it had changed. It was a memory, a thing from her past. This wound could close and heal. The injury done to her was over. She did not have to keep it as a part of herself. She could allow herself to heal. Her tears were diluted in the rain that ran down her face.”

403. “Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go. The memory was still there. It had not vanished, but it had changed. It was a memory, a thing from her past. This wound could close and heal. The injury done to her was over. She did not have to keep it as a part of herself. She could allow herself to heal. Her tears were diluted in the rain that ran down her face.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.”

404. “It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.”

405. “People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.”

406. “A moment ago you spoke of love without need. To sate your need without love is theft. If you ust have that, hire it done.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.”

407. “Death could make things stop, but it could not make things right.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would have found it impossible. But I was young then, much younger than I suspected, and somehow I found the energy and time to do and be it all.”

408. “The separate parts of my life became like beads and I the string that ran through them all. I believe if I had ever paused to consider the intricacy of all I did to keep those parts separate, I would have found it impossible. But I was young then, much younger than I suspected, and somehow I found the energy and time to do and be it all.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else.”

409. “Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.”

410. “There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Men it is who think they can rule others’ lives but have no bonds to them.”

411. “Men it is who think they can rule others’ lives but have no bonds to them.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.”

412. “Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.”

413. “Housework was comforting. In cleaning and restoring a room, one could assert control. One could even pretend, briefly, that life could be tidied the same way.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.”

414. “I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “For time is the great enslaver of us all.”

415. “For time is the great enslaver of us all.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.”

416. “No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.”

417. “She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “It’s an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps.”

418. “It’s an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I’m lovely.”

419. “Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I’m lovely.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.”

420. “Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.” He shifted slightly in the dark. “And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.”

421. “There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.” He shifted slightly in the dark. “And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal.”

422. “We live in our bodies. An assault on that outside fortress of the mind leaves scars that may not show, but never heal.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?”

423. “Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Jek is too busy living. She won’t waste time on regrets.”

424. “Jek is too busy living. She won’t waste time on regrets.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, “There will be a lovely moon tonight,” and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.”

425. “If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, “There will be a lovely moon tonight,” and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.”

426. “They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “What does who call me when?”

427. “What does who call me when?”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.”

428. “Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.”

429. “It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”

430. “How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.”

431. “It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.”

432. “I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.”

433. “Even the homeliest girl secretly dreams that a man might fall in love with her inner spirit.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.”

434. “Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.”

435. “I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I.”

436. “There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.”

437. “And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they’d had moments before when I’d been trying to win a game were meanings that I’d imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.”

438. “It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they’d had moments before when I’d been trying to win a game were meanings that I’d imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be.”

439. “Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “And like a child, I’d be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.”

440. “And like a child, I’d be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.”

441. “There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.”

442. “He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”

443. “I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”

444. “As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”

445. “But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “I was confused, thinking that my pain and my loss were one and the same thing, whereas one was but a symptom of the other.”

446. “I was confused, thinking that my pain and my loss were one and the same thing, whereas one was but a symptom of the other.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.”

447. “The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Think of what is and don’t let what might have been distract you.”

448. “Think of what is and don’t let what might have been distract you.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “Love can exist without need.”

449. “Love can exist without need.”

Robin Hobb Quote: “You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.”

450. “You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.”

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