Robin Hobb Quotes

I felt a familiar squeezing in what I thought must be my heart. I had heard of being heartbroken or heavy-hearted but I had never known it was an actual sensation one felt when the whole world abandon...

I flew, I hunted, I killed. I am SINTARA!

I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.

I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in ou...

I made a sudden decision. and my dog has followed me from town and cought up with us here. I left him with friends, but he must have chewed his rope. here, boy, come to heel. I'll chew your heel off f...

I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.

I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows...

I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.

I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

I wasn’t being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn’t fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.

I wince to think of the price willingly paid for loving me.

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.

If you don’t decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you.

It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

It was well to impress one's enemies with a show of strength. It was even better to be sure one's friends remembered it as well.

Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.