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“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice