Robin Hobb Quotes

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.

Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else

I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet...

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.

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...

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is...

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...

You’d be wise to eat lightly, or not at all, of any food you do not prepare yourself. At all the feasts and festivities that will be there? No. Only at the ones you wish to survive.

Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your own family and friends.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.

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

There is always power in holding a secret.

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a...

Leave that. Leave all that and join us here. There is no loneliness, no separation at all. No aching bones, no worn-out bodies. It's not what they told us, Fitz! All those warnings and dire prediction...

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?''No. Just stupid.''Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't...

Não reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais difícil que já fiz na vida ser também a mais cobarde?