Quotes from Robin Hobb

There is this, boy. And you should remember it in every situation, not just this one. 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. For now, do you think you could learn how to do it, and later decide if you want to do it?

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead

You should know by now how easy it is to lose a person just by letting someone walk away from you.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power. These were Shrewd's maxims. And Verity abided by them.

Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives but have no bonds to them.

The welfare of the people belongs to the people, and they have the right to object if their duke stewards it poorly.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real

Of all the cruel jests fate had recently played on me, I decided that awakening was the cruelest.

Any future can be!" she replied, laughing at me. "If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?

Nenhum inimigo, bem sabia, é mais temível do que aquele que ferimos gravemente.

Anyone untaught can do a wrong thing. But after he's been taught, there's no excuse to repeat it.

Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.

Today! Today! Tomorrow begins today!

Danger cups us under its hand, and we can do nothing but stand witness to the turning of the world. Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.

Depois daquilo comecei a desejar esclarecer as coisas com o Bobo. Como um dente doloroso, remoí uma e outra vez o que lhe queria dizer.

Tinha andado a manter um silêncio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele não o fazia. Haverá alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguém comece uma discussão?

You and I, we are like buds grafted onto a tree. We can grow true to ourselves, but only so much as our roots will allow us

I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people