“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”

—  Robin Hobb , book Royal Assassin

Source: Royal Assassin

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

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