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1 " 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 , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)
2 " Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped. "
7 " When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it. "
8 " One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon. "
9 " Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for. "
10 " Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist. "
11 " Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. "
12 " Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated. "
13 " A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking. "
14 " We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness. "
15 " ... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow. "
16 " Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends. "
17 " Something clamped tight inside her suddenly eased. He had been right. She did not have to grip her pain. She could let it go. The memory was still there. It had not vanished, but it had changed. It was a memory, a thing from her past. This wound could close and heal. The injury done to her was over. She did not have to keep it as a part of herself. She could allow herself to heal. Her tears were diluted in the rain that ran down her face. "
18 " It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them. "
19 " You can't play in shit and not get some on you. "
20 " Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know. "