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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robin Hobb
Past, Race, Interesting
Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1940, Del Rey

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robin Hobb
Past, Lasts, Fixed
Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.977, Del Rey

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day, to find all my careful scribing gone to fragments of vellum lying in a trampled yard with wet snow blowing over them. I sat my horse, looking down at them, and knew that, as it always would, the past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robin Hobb
Horse, Lying, Past

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
Short Life, Past, Feelings

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