Robin Hobb Quotes
Robin Hobb Quotes
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
2607 That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
4394 As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
1342 That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.
4793 It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer
1173 One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
2163 Surprise!-FitzChivalry
2290 I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
2012 I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
4570 Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
3168 Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
3753 History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
4675 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 lives. We create it as we go along.” He smiled enigmatically. “The future is another kind of history.
3258 Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
2117 Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.
3978 Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
2287 To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
4054 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 it. I understand your hesitation.
1550 I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.
4027 Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
3631 I loved that man as I have loved no one else. I do not say I loved him more than I love your mother. But that the way I loved him was different. But if you have heard there was anything improper in our bond, there was not. That was not what we were to one another. What we had went beyond that.
3500 Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.
3107 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.
1066 One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
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