Robin Hobb Quotes

When you see me loyal to my family, then you see the wolf.

Drink up your false courage and move forward. It’s the only direction a man can move in.

Little brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow...

The fight isn't over until you win.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

And what do you believe?A slow smile spread over his face. I believe in you. You are my new beginning.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage a...

She wears a freedom ring in one ear, you know, the earring that Chalcedean freed-slaves must purchase and wear to prove they have been granted their freedom. I asked her once if she had bought her fre...

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to b...

That life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living. I

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

In my opinion, men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won’t feel guilty about what they do to them. But

Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We...

But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—’‘Sometimes you can’t believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you’re afraid to believe...

Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling rem...