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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.Robin Hobb
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Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?Robin Hobb
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They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.Robin Hobb
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She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.Robin Hobb
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I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.Robin Hobb
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Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?"" And all women, too." She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise." It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke, " he said mildly." A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.Robin Hobb
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I must talk to Kennit first. He will tell me when he is ready for us to have a baby."" Never, " Bolt said flatly." What?"" Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide. .Robin Hobb
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There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.Robin Hobb