“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”

— Robin Hobb , book Assassin's Quest

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American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

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That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;”

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Context: I had a thought for no one's but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.