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Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3) QUOTES

Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3) QUOTES

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.
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― 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? "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

6 " There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

8 " One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

13 " A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

15 " ... finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

16 " Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

18 " It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

19 " You can't play in shit and not get some on you. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)

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. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)