Quotes from Robin Hobb

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

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.

Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.

But a living is not a life.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

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.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

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

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.