Robin Hobb Quotes

Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller...

Malta, he said, and smiled. Possibly the most annoying young female I’ve ever encountered. Yet lovely. I named a horse after her. Do you remember?

So. Which of our troubles torments you most this evening?Althea surrendered. They all nip at my heels like a pack of yapping feists, ship. I don’t know which to worry about first. The figurehead gave...

Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Sound seemed muted, and night darker, scent and taste dulled. It was as if the world had been robbed of its brightness. He had left me behind to dwell alone in a dimmed and stale place.

Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

It was not that she was a better-tempered person, she decided detachedly. It was that her anger had learned a terrible patience. What good was wasting words on a petty and tyrannical second mate? He w...

The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm’s resurgence.

Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?

Starling tries to seduce Fitz.Be with me she said simply Just for here. Just for now. With gentleness and friendship. To take...the other away. Give me that much of yourself.I wanted her. I wanted her...

Sweet Eda. Fitz, he has your face. Right down to the break in your nose. Amber cleared her throat. She spoke breathlessly into our shocked silence. Fitz. Please. I can explain everything.

Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.

Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it o...

I’m proud of you. It’s not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It’s how he does it. Be proud of yourself.

I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea’s featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.

Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man’s hands and heart, and later by his head.

I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.