Robin Hobb Quotes

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the s...

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time.

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.

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...

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose...

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish u...

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.

It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone’s world,

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?

I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.

I sleep like an old woman now, she thought to herself. In fits and starts. It isn’t sleeping and it isn’t waking and it isn’t rest.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

As if he hadn't always known he was loved the best. That he was the Beloved.