Robin Oliveira Quotes

#1. Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January.

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#2. Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

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#3. In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.

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#4. Mary thought that the art of love might just be blindness: the willingness not to see the truth of anything, to blur life's sharp edges and drift on an impression of one's own making, to act as if the life you lived was the life you wanted.

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#5. Why is it that voices break hearts?

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#6. But I will only be able to claim it if I am offered it. Tell me, Dr. Blevens, in your opinion, is there a limit to how much knowledge one person is allowed to accumulate? Have I reached my quota?

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#7. For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.

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#8. How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.

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#9. If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

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