Robin Hobb Quotes

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

I tried a last time. When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—

I tried to comfort him. I tried to tell him it might be chance, not destiny, that has put him here. Do you know what he said?That there is no chance, only destiny.Her hands paused. How did you know?It...

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

I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.

I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.

I'm sorry.He looked at me. Some day, Fitzchivalry, he warned me, those words will not be enough. Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered. E...

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderme...

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss.

If 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.

It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.

It would be ironic,' I panted to Burrich and Dutiful, 'if after all these years of longing to die, he finally perished in an attempt to live.'Burrich snorted. 'We all perish in our last attempt to liv...

It's a fine day for a prayer. But then, most days are.''That's what you were doing? Praying?' At his nod, I asked, 'For what do you petition the gods?'He raised his brows. 'Petition?''Isn't that what...

It’s not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It’s how he does it.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands roug...

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.

So this was our adventure. And the prince and the princess get married and live happily ever after, with many children to warm the in their old age.'He had probably heard that phrase thousands of time...