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Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
– Robin Hobb

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  3. Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. – Sarah Pinborough
  4. If you want a revenge, don’t hold it. It poisons you.Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary. – Toba Beta
  5. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  6. It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. – Pseudonymous Bosch
  7. I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having. – T Kingfisher
  8. If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value. – Willi Way
  9. Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me. – Robin Hobb
  10. …once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson. – Robin Hobb
  11. There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. – Robin Hobb
  12. Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power. – Robin Hobb
  13. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  14. A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon. – Robin Hobb
  15. I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry. – Robin Hobb
  16. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. – Robin Hobb
  17. I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. – Robin Hobb
  18. 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
  19. He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. – Robin Hobb
  20. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
  21. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
  22. Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? – Robin Hobb
  23. And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. ‘You are so stupid. – Robin Hobb
  24. 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
  25. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. – Robin Hobb
  26. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? – Robin Hobb
  27. Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest. – Robin Hobb
  28. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one’s actions. – Robin Hobb
  29. That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man’s life. – Robin Hobb
  30. 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
  31. The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real. – Robin Hobb
  32. …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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. – Robin Hobb
  38. 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
  39. Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb
  40. The fight isn’t over until you win it…That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. – Robin Hobb

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