Robin Hobb Quotes

We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

Why can't people love one another and still remain free? Althea demanded suddenly.Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. One can love that way, she conceded regretfully. B...

Young, Chade suggested. Young and full of righteous fury. Hurt and heartbroken, I suggested. So tired of being thwarted. Tired of being bound by rules that no one else had to follow.

His touch sketched the window of her freedom as she danced.

In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.

Many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.

No sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

The greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to...

Ah, Fitz, you should know by now that every moment of my life is spent dancing. And with every partner, I tread a different measure.

Any future can be! she replied, laughing at me. If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?

His heart had pounded with joy at the thought that he might catch her, might playfully hold her in his arms, for just a moment. They were children, I suddenly saw, children at play, only a handful of...

How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?

How much do you understand?’ I demanded of her one afternoon. She cocked her head at me, met my gaze and demanded, ‘How much do YOU understand?

Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and...

I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I pleased only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. To be part of a family, or any community, is to h...