Quotes from Robin Hobb

Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiência raramente era agradável para a pedrinha.

I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.' 'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked. Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.

To go without solitude is like going without salt.

He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world

If we aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart.

When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all

It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.

We were one thing. Whole.

when sleep is the only comfort you can take, take it. It will leave you better prepared for whatever might come next.

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!

I was confused, thinking that my pain and my loss were one and the same thing, whereas one was but a symptom of the other.

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

Then as now he created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking.

For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

It is a sense you do not possess, and hence I cannot explain it to you," she added condescendingly. "Imagine trying to explain a sense of smell to someone who had none. What sounds like an arbitrary, almost mystic ability is no different from smelling apple blossoms in the dark.

Reality is often unkind to legends.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz

But these things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he reminded himself, and felt the pain ease. Wintrow went to pack a change of clothes.

Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.

Stop blaming yourself. Someone deceived you and hurt you. You don't need to take on the burden of that. The man who committed the offense is at fault, not the person he wronged