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ASSASSIN'S QUEST de Robin Hobb
For time is the great enslaver of us all. Time that aged us, time that limits us.
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ASSASSIN'S QUEST de Robin Hobb
Death is always at the edge of now. Death stalks us, and he is never sure of his kill. It is not a thing to dwell on, but it is something we all know, in our guts and bones. All save humans.
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ASSASSIN'S QUEST de Robin Hobb
But for here, for now, just between us two, and for no other reason save I am me and you are you, I tell you this. I am glad, glad that you are alive. To see you take breath puts the breath back in my lungs. If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you.
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ASSASSIN'S QUEST de Robin Hobb
So perhaps, in sufficient quantity, magic becomes ordinary. Instead of a thing of wonder and awe, it becomes the stuff of roadbeds and signposts, used with a profligacy that astounds those who have it not.
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Royal Assassin: Book 2 de Robin Hobb
Lost a fight? The fight isn't over until you win, Fitz. That's all you have to remember.
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Royal Assassin: Book 2 de Robin Hobb
You forbid? You forbid? Forbid the wind to blow past your stone den, then, or the grass to grow in the earth around it. You have as much right. You forbid.
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Royal Assassin: Book 2 de Robin Hobb
Our own ambitions and tasks that we set for ourselves, the framework we attempt to impose upon the world, is no more than a shadow of a tree cast across the snow. It will change as the sun moves, be swallowed in the night, sway with the wind, and when the smooth snow vanishes, it will lie distorted upon the une en earth. But the tree continues to be. Do you understand that?
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Royal Assassin: Book 2 de Robin Hobb
The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is. Then, in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself.
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Royal Assassin: Book 2 de Robin Hobb
Forces shift. Shadows flutter. Suddenly there is a rippling in the possibilities. A reordering of the futures, as destinies multiply. All paths diverge, and diverge again.
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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is true, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
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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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.
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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
If all I had ever done was to be born and discovered, I would have left a mark across all the land for all time. I grew up fatherless and motherless in a court where all recognized me as a catalyst. And a catalyst I became.
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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
My life has been a web of secrets, secrets that even now are unsafe to share. Shall I set them all down on fine paper, only to create from them flame and ash? Perhaps.
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Assassin’s Apprentice: Robin Hobb: Book 1 de Robin Hobb
Very little worth knowing is taught by fear. It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.
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