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It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.Robin Hobb
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And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.Robin Hobb
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I lied! ' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! ' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!Robin Hobb
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Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.Robin Hobb
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For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.Robin Hobb
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The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.Robin Hobb
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I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me! He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!Robin Hobb
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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
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I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.Robin Hobb
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If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.Robin Hobb
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As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.Robin Hobb
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His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.Robin Hobb
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His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.'He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.Robin Hobb
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It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.Robin Hobb
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Dragons don't bother with introductions.Robin Hobb
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Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.Robin Hobb
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I wish they would all go away. Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.Robin Hobb
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He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!Robin Hobb
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And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.Robin Hobb