Robin Hobb Quotes

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat’s loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Then I'd be dead, I pointed out. Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to playthat game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.’ He smiled enigmatically. ‘The future is another kind of history.

We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like the bastards we are.

They need other people to make them think they’re alive. They only feel like they’re important if someone else tells them they are.

Once she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.

Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. You're mad.Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back.

Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour.

If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe be dismissed and find another. For once students have bee...

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war, nor the strength to warriors. I've seen this strength in old women with the coughing s...

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

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some pers...

I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.

Then in general charge of the pack beasts and wagon animals. But it wasn’t just work he taught me. Cleanliness. Honesty. He put a value on what my mother and grandmother had tried to instill in me so...