Robin Hobb Quotes

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chos...

We are pack!

I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very...

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

Fitz: How bad is it?Nighteyes: Mind your own business.Fitz: You ARE my business.Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it.Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I cou...

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different del...