Robin Hobb Quotes

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a realit...

One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot. —

Ours was a ragged and uneven parting. Each of us had intended to see the other again. Each of us had had final words to say. My days with the Fool ended like a half-played game of Stones, the outcome...

Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.

Patience had once counseled me that the best way to stop pitying myself was to do something for someone else.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.

Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mãe, numa corte onde todos me...

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by itp. 283

Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won’t. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can’t eat the meat until you’ve killed it.

Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.

Sometimes, when one goes back to the scene of one’s childhood, things seem smaller. What was mysterious and the sole province of adults suddenly seems commonplace and mundane when viewed with mature e...

Starling lowered her voice, but it carried anyway. He is FitzChivalry, son of Chivalry the Abdicated. And you are the Fool.Once, perhaps, I was the Fool. It is common knowledge here in Jhaampe. But no...

Ten times dead was very dead indeed.

That is the challenge, Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is...