Quotes from Robin Hobb

and again, they were opposite of each other in every way, and each way was wonderful.

Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

And for that rush of fury? Time. Time passing with no one trying to hurt you or kill you will lessen that reaction.

I have never been wise.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity.

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Make up your mind. Is Death a friend? Then go joyfully to hunt with it, as I did. If it's an enemy, then fight it. But don't sag here like a wounded cow waiting for predators to finish it off. You are not prey, nor I! If we must die, let us die as wolves!

Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.

I had read a poem about a girl with 'silvery laughter' but Shun's sounded to me as if someone had fallen down a long flight of steps with a basket of cheap tin pans.

Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.

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

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

You're not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don't think you are. But you'll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.

My dragons!' she insisted. 'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her. But the dragons have taken her in.' ...'If a flock of crows is a murder, what should we call a group of dragons?' ... 'A catastrophe of dragons.

What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.

Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?" "P. 307: Fitz to Chade

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him.

There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder.