Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)

by Robin Hobb

“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”

‘One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.’

“The heel that destroys that which belongs to the sea shall be claimed in turn by the sea.”

Althea had always known that her great-grandma had commissioned the building of the Vivacia. In that dream, however, she was not just the woman who had gone to the money lenders and the ship builders; she was suddenly a woman who had loved the sea and ships and had boldly determined the course of her family’s descendants with her decision to possess a liveship.

Oh, to have lived in such a time, when a woman could wield such authority.

the throbbing of his pain, the beat, beat, beat in his hand that

are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself. Be who you are, and eventually all will have to recognize who you are, whether they are willing to admit it or not. And