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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
– Robin Hobb

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  18. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. – Robin Hobb
  19. I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. – Robin Hobb
  20. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. – Robin Hobb
  21. He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. – Robin Hobb
  22. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
  23. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
  24. Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? – Robin Hobb
  25. And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. ‘You are so stupid. – Robin Hobb
  26. Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it? – Robin Hobb
  27. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. – Robin Hobb
  28. Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. – Robin Hobb
  29. There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. – Robin Hobb
  30. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one’s actions. – Robin Hobb
  31. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. – Robin Hobb
  32. The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real. – Robin Hobb
  33. …You won’t even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you’d be out there with a fork. – Robin Hobb
  34. As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character. – Robin Hobb
  35. Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. – Robin Hobb
  36. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. – Robin Hobb
  37. Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father’s talent for it. – Robin Hobb
  38. Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. – Robin Hobb
  39. Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it. – Robin Hobb
  40. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb

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