Robin Hobb Quotes

To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them go.

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others. Every...

Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back...

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.

Um homem armado com a palavra certa pode fazer o que um exército de espadachins não pode.

Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.

When people look most vicious, what you are seeing is not their animal side. It is the savagery that only humans can muster.

When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.

Wintrow’s words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does accepta...

With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare nearby that I sensed. I knew the scintillant forms of the myriad insects that populated the grasse...

You can't play in shit and not get some on you.

You have been with me, as close as the tips of my fingers, even when we were years and seas apart. Your being was like the hum of a plucked string at the edge of my hearing, or a scent carried on a br...

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us.    He shook his head, slowly this time. History is what we do in our li...

You see, said the wolf. He senses me. Not clearly, but he does. Hello, Fool. My ears itch. Outside the tent, the Fool reached down suddenly to scratch the wolf’s ears.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to st...

You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.''I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant later s...

Young as I was, I still wondered what kind of man this was who, with one leg bandaged, could quell a room full of rough men with a look or a word.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.