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Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) QUOTES

Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) QUOTES

1 " That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

2 " For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

3 " One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

4 " As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

5 " What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

6 " When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

7 " Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

8 " Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

9 " Only my pain is more silent than my anger. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

10 " I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, 'this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.'" Amber shook her head, but her small smile made it an affirmation. "I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and on it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

11 " Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

12 " I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn’t sleeping and it isn’t waking and it isn’t rest. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

13 " The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

14 " I don't think I can stand it much longer,” he warned her. “Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me… I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation… I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

15 " Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

16 " It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

17 " It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

18 " if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

19 " Althea had never known that misery could achieve perfection. Only now, as she sat staring at her emptied glass, did she grasp how completely wrong her world had become. Things had been bad before, things had been flawed, but it was only today that she had made one stupid decision after another until everything was as completely wrong as it could possibly be. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

20 " When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday. "

― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)