Robin Hobb Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have...

People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed

Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination, the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more reflective voice she asked, Do you do this because you live such short liv...

Take all self-determination from a man’s life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

You can deny it. But I have been with you, in every way that matters. As you have been with me. We’ve shared our thoughts and our food, bound each other’s wounds, slept close when the warmth of our bo...

Reminding myself that these servants might be better born than myself, I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all s...

Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

You can't die from seasickness, but you wish you could.

The future cannot take from us the days we have left…unless we let it.p. 46 The Fool to Fitz

I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you l...

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. But then I returned one day,...