Robin Hobb Quotes

For wolves, as for dogs, life is a briefer thing than for men, if you measure it by counting days and how many turns of a season one sees. But in two years, a cub wolf does all a man does in a score....

For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you’re dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!

He leaned forward, eyes gleaming with enthusiasm. As he spoke, he lifted the kettle from the oil flame and poured steaming water into the cup and a bowl. Ginger and cinnamon wafted toward me. All of t...

He shook his head slowly. I am not the person I was born. Neither are you. I know no one who is. Truly, Fitz, all we ever know are facets of one another. Perhaps we feel as if we know one another well...

He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?'The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. 'That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to ma...

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

How strange to be loved simply for who I was.

I accepted their ridicule by sulking manfully.

I am quite safe, I assure you. But, even if I were not, I have the habits of a lifetime to protect me. And Lacey. Lacey? I could not keep incredulity from my voice nor a grin from my face. I turned to...

I bite my tongue and scowl my love, lest passion make me slave.

I can take all my pasts, keep them and determine my own future. I don't have to be what anyone made me, Brashen. I can be Paragon.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of...

I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

I don't think I can stand it much longer, he warned her. Something will have to give way. And I fear it will be me… I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to chan...

I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.

I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.

I suppose I cannot blame you for doubting me. I could scarcely believe it myself at first. I found all sorts of ways to deny it and explain it away. But it wouldn’t stay gone.