Robin Hobb Quotes

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's a...

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;

The more I studied the accounts of others, both written and told, the more it seemed to me that we attempt such histories not to preserve knowledge, but to fix the past in a settled way. Like a flower...

The price was my healthy young body, so long taken for granted.

They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle...

Tivessem eles sido cães, teriam me farejado, afastado-se a seguir, mas os humanos não têm dessas cortesias inatas.

To Fitz and the Fool, my best friends for over twenty years

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.

We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart.

Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Why’re you like that? the boy persisted.Like what? Paragon finally asked in annoyance.Ya’know. Allus mad. Or crazy fightin’ Say’n stuff ta be mean.How else do you expect me to be? Paragon retorted. Jo...

You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.

You can’t go back, she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No bei...

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.

Проигрывать бой? - все еще задыхаясь спросил он. - Бой не заканчивается, пока ты его не выиграл, Фитц. Это очень просто запомнить. Независимо от того, что считает другой человек.

Just tell me. Do I break the future?-Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day.

I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of...