Robin Hobb Quotes

Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they coul...

Innocent? He was incensed at her suggestion he was somehow responsible for this mess. I’ve done nothing wrong, I intend nothing wrong. I am innocent!Half the evil in this world occurs while decent peo...

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Justice. There’s a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Happy comes and goes, Tats. Loving someone isn’t that crazy infatuation that you feel at first. That passes. Well, not passes, but it calms down, and then sometimes, when you least expect it, you get...

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

For a very brief period I was happy, and, an even rarer gift, I knew I was happy.

Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.

Useless to worry until we find ourselves blocked, Nighteyes pointed out. If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand st...

Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller...

Most of being a woman hurts.

There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man...

That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I w...

Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.

We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... th...